Cap-a-pie
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adverb
Quick meaning: Cap-a-pie is an adverb meaning From head to toe, especially of armor or other military accoutrements.
Meaning
From head to toe, especially of armor or other military accoutrements.
Example Sentences
Miss Thorne when fully dressed might be said to have been armed cap-a-pie, and she was always fully dressed, as far as was ever known to mortal man.
I sallied forth cap-à-pie in my Madras regimentals, intending to accompany Brent to Westminster Abbey, and to take a coach at the first stand we came to.
If twenty thousand naked Americans were not able to resist the assaults of but twenty well-armed Spaniards, I see little possibility for one honest man to defend himself against twenty thousand knaves, who are all furnished cap-a-pie with the defensive arms of worldly prudence, and the offensive, too, of craft and malice.
Word Forms
- capapie
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include capape, capapie, cap-a-pee, toplessly, throughout, pickapack.
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