cap-a-pie

American  

[kap-uh-pee] / ˌkæp əˈpi /

Or cap-à-pie

adverb

1. from head to foot.

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cap-a-pie British  

/ ˌkæpəˈpiː /

adverb

1. (dressed, armed, etc) from head to foot

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Etymology

Origin of cap-a-pie

1515–25; < Middle French de cap a pe from head to foot < Old Provençal < Latin dē capite ad pedem

Example Sentences

Down ran Ben Gillam and a second officer, armed cap-a-pie, with swaggering insolence that they took no pains to conceal.

From Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

Full of flatteries is he; Armed with treachery, cap-a-pie, He 'll play 'possum; never mind him,— March him straightway back to me!

From Second Book of Verse by Field, Eugene

Horses, cows and buffaloes are the beasts of burden, and a Sooloo may usually be seen riding either one or the other, armed cap-a-pie, with kris, spear, and target, or shield.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XLIII, 1670-1700 by Various

When all was still the earl, the great earl, came forth, armed cap-a-pie, mounted on his charger.

From The House of Walderne A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in the Days of the Barons' Wars by Crake, A. D. (Augustine David)

He had meantime arrayed himself cap-a-pie in all the new apparel he recently had purchased, so that he stood now reeking of discomfort, in his new hat, his new shoes, his tight collar.

From The Sagebrusher A Story of the West by Hough, Emerson