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Cap-a-pie

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Adverb

1
From head to toe, especially of armor or other military accoutrements. not-comparable
"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."

Adverb

1
at all points from head to foot wordnet

Etymology

From Old French (de) cap a pié (Modern French de pied en cap).

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