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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"The Tragedy of Hamlet," Vocabulary from Act 1
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She was gowned once more in the yellow and black, and stood in tigrine splendor cap-a-pie.
From Double Trouble Or, Every Hero His Own Villain by Orson Lowell
And he must be ready, armed cap-a-pie to meet him on every ground.
From Mortmain by Arthur Cheny Train
Shrove-Tide, armed cap-a-pie, advanced mounted astride of a salmon.
From The Iron Pincers or Mylio and Karvel A Tale of the Albigensian Crusades by Eugène Sue
Carlile may be said to have travelled his native isle like the champion of old—always mounted on his charger of fearlessness, and armed cap-a-pie for the encounter of his enemies.
From The Battle of The Press As Told in the Story of the Life of Richard Carlile By His Daughter, Theophila Carlile Campbell by Theophila Carlile Campbell
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 Allen Johnson
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