cap-apée

adjective

Armoured; in full armour, from head to toe.

Meanings

adjectivecap-apée (not comparable)

alternative cap-a-pie

  1. not comparableArmoured; in full armour, from head to toe.

    Those grizly hangmen, in their canvass sleeves, Fight for me better than an armed band Of christian knights full cap-apée.

    1804, Joanna Baillie, Constantine Paleologus, act 3
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