Definition of Yeoman Warder in English:
Yeoman Warder
nounjəʊmən ˈwɔːdəjəʊmənˈwɔːdə(r)
A warder at the Tower of London.
Also called beefeater
Example sentencesExamples
- Prisoners in the Tower was the title of the talk on May 28 given by Roy Sanders-Crook a retired Yeoman Warder.
- He also met Yeoman Warders, otherwise known as Beefeaters, and saw himself on a silver screen as a four-year-old boy at his mother's coronation in 1953.
- Likewise, England isn't roast beef and horseradish, it isn't Yeoman Warders, and it isn't Hugh Grant and Kate Winslet.
- The Yeomen Warders, also known as the beefeaters, are armed with a haberd or pike known as a partisan.
- The reception was then held in the Yeoman Warder's Club, which is also within the Tower's walls, where the Beefeaters volunteered their services to serve the meal.