cap-a-pie
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cap-a-pie
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From Old French (de) cap a pié (Modern French de pied en cap).
adverb cap-à-pie · cap-à-piè · cap-à-pié · cap-a-pe · cap-a-pee · cap-apée
- From head to toe, especially of armor or other military accoutrements. 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, to
