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

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)

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 Sue, Eugène

He was armed cap-a-pie, and ever as he spoke he strode rapidly up and down the floor of the room.

From Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy by Stables, Gordon

On receiving the orders of the Vazir, Dost Mohammed armed himself cap-a-pie, and taking six men with him, went and remained waiting on the road between the house of Mohammed Azim Khan and the Mirza.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 60, No. 373, November 1846 by Various

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