Meaning of cap-a-pie | Babel Free

Definitions

From head to toe, especially of armor or other military accoutrements.

not-comparable

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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