Beefeater meaning

Noun: beefeater

Pronunciation:(‘beef,ee-tu(r))

Beefeater meaning:

• Officer in the (ceremonial) bodyguard of the British monarch

Synonyms: yeoman, yeoman of the guard

Derived forms: beefeaters
Quotations:

1. Aldous Huxley – Who lives longer? The man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or a man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes ’till 95? One passes his 24 months in eternity. All the years of the beefeater are lived only in time.
2. Augustin – The Censorship is changing bit by bit, like the beefeaters of the Tower, who replaced their hose by breeches some years ago without warning.
3. Heywood – “Broun,” he said, “try to solve your problems without recourse to death, madness—or any other beefeater in the Queen’s name.”
4. Williamson – A venerable “beefeater” with white hair and beard came in answer to the summons, and bowing politely to the party, immediately started off with them.

Sample sentences:

1. Walking with him past a hotel, I watched as he stared at a doorman dressed like a Beefeater.
2. “The Cornell beefeaters won’t get the drop on Yale,” returned Frank, quietly.
3. See thou not the man there standing amidst the throng, somewhat behind the beefeaters?
4. The beefeater before the door of the Lady Mary’s lodgings spat upon the ground when he had passed.
5. This she presented to the “beefeater” who stood by the first gateway, after they had crossed the great empty moat.
6. “I am the king’s beefeater’s little boy,” replied the child.
7. She walked to Tower Hill amidst a body of Beefeaters.
8. Only to get in front of that beefeater with a shotgun.
9. But the innocent offspring of the beefeater declined this treat.
10. “This way to the Maze; this way to the Maze,” a man dressed like a Beefeater was continually saying.
11. The figure that appeared on the screen was that of a tall, solidly-built man with a red face and the uniform of a Beefeater.
12. “Boatmen coming through the Traitor’s Gate yonder, used to tie their boats to that ring,” the “beefeater” told them.
13. Antiquity is here represented in the person of two halberds, who stand to guard the door, dressed in extravagant costume, like beefeaters in full bloom.
14. I descend the grand staircase between two rows of beefeaters reclining drowsily at their ease.
15. I was proud to be brown in my own way. Well, I was at school; at school I was brown about the funky stuff that came with being vegetarian, like being really arrogant about it, declaring proudly to a room full of beefeaters when Mad Cow disease initially broke that it was ‘Vishnu’s way of telling y’all to stop eating and start worshipping’.
16. Albert Willis, a Chelsea Pensioner, Beefeater Paul Cunliffe, and Captain Joe Robinson, an officer in the Grenadier Guards, paid their respects to the fallen of the First World War at the Tower of London.
17. On this side of the footlights most people regard us as mere beefeaters, but taste the fare approved by us suspiciously.
18. The lions were grown as fat as pigs now, having had Hogginarmo and all those beefeaters, and were so tame, anybody might pat them.
19. They’re going to give it to the beefeaters pretty hot when they try to come ashore.