Gueux, “the Beggars,” the name assumed by the nobles and others in the Low Countries in the War of Independence against Philip II. of Spain; being called beggars in reproach by the court party, they adopted the name as well as the dress, wore a fox's tail for a plume and a platter for a brooch.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Guest, Edwin * Guiana