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

It represented a warrior with close-clipped hair, a long red beard, and armed cap-a-pie.

From The Galley Slave's Ring or The Family of Lebrenn. A Tale of The French Revolution of 1848 by Sue, Eug?ne

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)

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 Lowell, Orson

On swift destriers they mount, armed cap-a-pie As Knights arrayed for battle.

From La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier by Rabillon, Léonce