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  • The man in the "kangourou" costume is French prankster Rémi Gaillard who is famous in France for wearing national sports teams 'uniforms and slipping by security to join the teams on the pitch, at victory parties, in audience with President Jacques Chirac, etc. - all for the benefit of the camera.

    Neatorama 2008

  • The man in the "kangourou" costume is French prankster Rémi Gaillard who is famous in France for wearing national sports teams 'uniforms and slipping by security to join the teams on the pitch, at victory parties, in audience with President Jacques Chirac, etc. - all for the benefit of the camera.

    Neatorama 2008

  • Within the decade Buffon had introduced it into French (as kanguros plural) and the modern French form kangourou is recorded in 1800.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3 1983

  • In France a railway wagon to carry the trailer of a semi-trailer (articulated lorry to British readers) is called wagon kangourou (defined by Grand Larousse as

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3 1983

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