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Definition of Beefeaters
1. beefeater [n] - See also: beefeater
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beefeaters
Literary usage of Beefeaters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. In Thamseland: Being the Gossiping Record of Rambles Through England from by Henry Wellington Wack (1906)
"... AD 944 — Billingsgate — The Tower of London — Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard —
Sir Walter Raleigh — The beefeaters — Tower Bridge — The Pool — The. ..."
2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1888)
"_ " Can't be Swiss beefeaters," objects C-MPB-LL CL-RKE, who lives on the Continent,
and knows more of Switzerland than most people would imagine; ..."
3. An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language by Walter William Skeat (1893)
"The business of the beefeaters was, and perhaps is still, to attend the king at
meals. This derivation is corroborated by the circumstance of the beefeaters ..."
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