cap-à-pieadv.

/kapəˈpiː/

Forms: Also 1500s–1800s cap(e-a-pe(e, (1600s cappa-pæ, cap a pea, capape(e, 1600s–1800s cap a pied, etc.).

Etymology: Old French cap a pie head to foot, modern French de pied en cap.

From head to foot: in reference to arming or accoutring.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > [adverb] > armoured from head to foot

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1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccccxvii. 730 Harnessed men cape a pe, lyke men of armes.

1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie lii. 28 The rest all in bright harnesse capa pe.

1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis Pref. Thus Capa peia is that Gallant great.

1651 T. Fuller Abel Redevivus 3 Confessours of the Truth,..should be accoutred Cappa-pæ with undaunted courages.

1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 55 To arm you with cap-a-pe for your body.

1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle II. lxviii. 244 There was no possibility of furnishing them cap-a-pee at Antwerp.

1848 A. Jameson Sacred & Legendary Art II. 13 Mounted and armed cap-à-pie.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	cap-à-pie
释义	cap-à-pieadv. /kapəˈpiː/ Forms: Also 1500s–1800s cap(e-a-pe(e, (1600s cappa-pæ, cap a pea, capape(e, 1600s–1800s cap a pied, etc.). Etymology: Old French cap a pie head to foot, modern French de pied en cap. From head to foot: in reference to arming or accoutring. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > armour > [adverb] > armoured from head to foot cap-à-pie1523 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccccxvii. 730 Harnessed men cape a pe, lyke men of armes. 1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie lii. 28 The rest all in bright harnesse capa pe. 1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis Pref. Thus Capa peia is that Gallant great. 1651 T. Fuller Abel Redevivus 3 Confessours of the Truth,..should be accoutred Cappa-pæ with undaunted courages. 1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 55 To arm you with cap-a-pe for your body. View more context for this quotation 1751 T. Smollett Peregrine Pickle II. lxviii. 244 There was no possibility of furnishing them cap-a-pee at Antwerp. 1848 A. Jameson Sacred & Legendary Art II. 13 Mounted and armed cap-à-pie. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adv.1523
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