cap-a-pie
Americanadverb
adverb
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
Vocabulary lists containing cap-a-pie
Body Language: Capit, Capt ("Head")
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Example Sentences
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When she sees her Salibrand so unmodiously accoutred, she will jeer him out of his periwig, and render him an Adamite cap-a-pie.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays Volume 14 of 15 by Dodsley, Robert
Douglas was quite ready to comment upon the outcome; and it needed only the bitter arraignment of his theories by Davis, to bring him armed cap-a-pie into the arena.
From Stephen A. Douglas A Study in American Politics by Johnson, Allen
The girl learned to ride horseback remarkably well, and at a fete appeared as Joan of Arc, armed cap-a-pie, riding a snow-white stallion.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 13 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Lovers by Hubbard, Elbert
The commercial career demands, so he fancied, that its knight go forth armed cap-a-pie in the commercial tongues.
From Spanish Highways and Byways by Bates, Katharine Lee
He had said in reply, "Such a man as I ought to reign;" and thus they had armed him cap-a-pie.
From Voltaire's Romances, Complete in One Volume by
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