cap-a-pie
Americanadverb
adverb
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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
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The commercial career demands, so he fancied, that its knight go forth armed cap-a-pie in the commercial tongues.
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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.
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And he must be ready, armed cap-a-pie to meet him on every ground.
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He was armed cap-a-pie, and ever as he spoke he strode rapidly up and down the floor of the room.
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It represented a warrior with close-clipped hair, a long red beard, and armed cap-a-pie.
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