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cap-a-pie

or cap-à-pie

[ kap-uh-pee ]

adverb

  1. from head to foot.


cap-a-pie

/ ˌkæpəˈpiː /

adverb

  1. (dressed, armed, etc) from head to foot
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of cap-a-pie1

1515–25; < Middle French de cap a pe from head to foot < Old Provençal < Latin dē capite ad pedem
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Word History and Origins

Origin of cap-a-pie1

C16: from Old French
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Example Sentences

Elodia rose to her full stature, armed cap-a-pie with her stateliest manner, but with a gracious sense of hospitality upon her.

The daily struggle would have worn me out; she returned, to it fresh each morning, armed at all points cap-a-pie.

Just then who should come riding out of the gate but Gilles de Gurdun, armed cap-a-pie?

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

Don John might be there seen, armed cap-a-pie, standing on the prow of the Real, anxiously awaiting the coming conflict.

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