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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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)
He was armed cap-a-pie, like one who might have to force his way against odds.
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)
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
The daily struggle would have worn me out; she returned, to it fresh each morning, armed at all points cap-a-pie.
From I Walked in Arden by Crawford, Jack
We attended, and every thing looked cap-a-pie; new, tasteful and happy as any thing human under God's providence and the art and judgment of man could promise.
From The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes by Falconbridge
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