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  • proper noun The symbol of the Michelin tyre company

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Examples

  • Bibendum is not, from the look of him, someone you would trust as the dread magistrate of gastronomy.

    Michelin's Restaurant Ratings: Losing Their Tread? Josh Ozersky at Time.com 2010

  • Rain or shine, I take my children and my wife to Bibendum coffee bar, one of the first Terence Conran restaurant ventures.

    Designer Rabih Hage and the Breakfast Club Javier Espinoza 2011

  • Bibendum, a tubby white cartoon man made of tires, made his annual voyage to America last week and awarded stars to 57 restaurants in New ...

    Michelin's Restaurant Ratings: Losing Their Tread? Josh Ozersky at Time.com 2010

  • After a two-hour mid-term exam at the height of cold and flu season she'd look like Bibendum, the Michelin man, in a floral print dress.

    Born Too Soon: America's Hottest Teachers Con Chapman 2011

  • Bibendum, a tubby white cartoon man made of tires, made his annual voyage to America last week and awarded stars to 57 restaurants in New York City.

    Michelin's Restaurant Ratings: Losing Their Tread? Josh Ozersky at Time.com 2010

  • Other strings to his bow include launching Conran Design Group, revamping the London restuarants Quaglino's and Bibendum, and overseeing high street chains such as Next, Mothercare and BHS.

    This week's new exhibitions 2012

  • A whole bunch of buttons, Bibendum made out of tires, Ben Franklin in headphones, and a life-sized Matchbox car - - web interface and a some of the artwork from the Icons New York show.

    Life-sized Matchbox car (and more) 2010

  • At Bibendum he served it breast first, legs afterwards which makes so much sense.

    Fergus Henderson: My favourite cookbook 2010

  • I poached a chicken last weekend: I knew it would be a success, as the method was based on one from a book by Simon Hopkinson, former chef at Bibendum, who is one of a very few cookery writers whose recipes I have never known to fail.

    Poached Chicken Comfort and Joy 2009

  • I poached a chicken last weekend: I knew it would be a success, as the method was based on one from a book by Simon Hopkinson, former chef at Bibendum, who is one of a very few cookery writers whose recipes I have never known to fail.

    Poached Chicken Comfort and Joy 2009

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