cap-a-pie

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Hardly had he made an end of speaking, when there sallied forth to him a Frankish horseman, armed cap-a-pie and clad in cloth of gold, riding on a gray horse, and he had no hair on his cheeks.

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  1. From head to foot; all over. Also written cap-à-pie. See cuts under armor. Arm'd at all points, exactly, cap-a-pe. Shak., Hamlet, i. 2. A yellow ointment, with which, after they [the Indians] have bathed, they anoint themselves capapee. Beverley, Virginia, iii. ¶ 42. Far from being disheartened, however, he was seen, armed cap-a-pie, on horseback from dawn to evening. Prescott, Ferd. and Isa., i. 4.

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  1. Earlier also cap-a-pe, cap-a-pee, capapee, cape-a-pe; from Old French de cap a pie, from head to foot (now de pied en cap, from foot to head): cap, head (see cape); pie, pied, from Latin pes (ped-) = English foot, q. v.
 

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