beefeater

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Another traditionally male role is the beefeater, the ceremonial guards of London Tower, but outside Birmingham's Selfridges building we are greeted by a female beefeater.

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  • In the seventeenth century, beefeater was a derogatory term for a servant who was well fed (by no means a certainty in those days), but a menial servant nonetheless. —  The Word Detective
  • To make it into the Old Guard, they've survived a basic training in which, instead of climbing walls and crawling under barbed wire, they learn to stand as still as a column and as solidly as a beefeater. —  Island Packet: Home
  • For his job he probably dresses like a beefeater and handles people's luggage for tips. —  Hot Chicks with Douchebags
  • So beefeater, you have now spammed this in multiple threads. —  Think Progress
  • I wonder if anyone else sees how similarly ignorant beefeater and Shimkus are. —  Think Progress
 

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