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A Beefeater is one of the traditional guards at the Tower of London. They wear a bright red uniform from a long time ago, and they often show visitors around. Their official name is Yeoman Warder, but almost everybody — especially tourists — calls them Beefeaters. You write it with a capital B when you mean these guards. The name is simply beef plus , “someone who eats beef,” but nobody uses it that way in ordinary talk; it is an old nickname that stuck. The word feels British, historical, and a bit touristy. Though actually, there is also a gin called Beefeater, named after the same guards — that is a brand, not this meaning.
倫敦塔守衛（英王衛士）。台灣更常聽到的「必富達」是琴酒品牌，不是這個意思。
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Beefeaternoun
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informalA Yeoman Warder
beefeaternoun
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An African bird of the genus Buphagus, which feeds on the larvae of botflies hatched under the skin of oxen, antelopes, etc.
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obsoleteOne who eats beef; a large, plump person; a well-fed servant.
- 1676 (Licensed). William Wycherley, The Plain Dealer (play); reprinted in: 1981. Holland, Peter (ed.), The Plays of William Wycherley, London: Cambridge University Press, Plays by Renaissance and Restoration Dramatiats series. I.i.342-351, p. 366. [H]ere you see a bishop bowing low to a gaudy atheist, a judge to a doorkeeper, a great lord to a fishmonger or a scrivener with a jack-chain about his neck, a lawyer to a sergeant-at-arms, a velvet physician to a threadbare chemist and a supple gentleman usher to a surely beefeater, and so tread round in a preposterous huddle of ceremony to each other whilst they can hardly hold their solemn false countenances.
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historicalA kind of hat worn by women resembling the headwear of a Beefeater (Yeoman Warder).
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。