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Encyclopedia > Beefeater

Beefeater has several meanings:

  • Beefeater is the colloquial name of the Yeomen Warders, the guards of Tower of London, from which the other meanings derive.
  • Beefeater gin is a brand of gin produced in the UK.
  • Beefeater, a chain of pub restaurants in the UK, owned by Whitbread Group PLC.
  • A Saucy Beefeater is a favored recipe of Dave Eggers featured prominently in A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.
  • The Beefeaters was the original name of The Byrds
  • Beefeater, a short-lived American punk rock band.
  • The Beefeater, a DC Comics superhero from England who bore a strange similarity to Basil Fawlty.
  • The Beefeater is a hotel and restaurant in Estevan, Saskatchewan.

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