Definition of Beefeaters

1. Noun. (plural of Beefeater) ¹

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Definition of Beefeaters

1. beefeater [n] - See also: beefeater

Lexicographical Neighbors of Beefeaters

beef to the hoof
beef tomato
beef tongue
beef trust
beef up
beefalo
beefaloes
beefalos
beefaroni
beefburger
beefburgers
beefcake
beefcakes
beefeater
beefeaters (current term)
beefed
beefed-up
beefed out
beefier
beefiest
beefily
beefiness
beefinesses
beefing
beefish
beefless
beeflike
beefs
beefsteak

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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