beefeater

1. (obsolete) One who eats beef; a large, plump person; a well-fed servant.Examples: "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."obsolete

2. (historical) A kind of hat worn by women resembling the headwear of a Beefeater (Yeoman Warder).historical