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cap-a-pie
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synonyms: cap-a-pié ???
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Definition:(armed) from head to foot
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Yet at their pleasure was he completely armed cap-a-pie, and mounted upon one of the best horses in the kingdom, with a good slashing shable by his side,
Rabelais. Gargantua and Pantagruel
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A figure like your father, Armed at point exactly, cap-a-pe;
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
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Malevole: Excellent, admirable, as the devil would have it! Lend me, lend me, rapier, pistol, cross-bow: so, so, I’ll do it.
Mendoza: Then we agree.
Malevole: As Lent and fishmongers. Come, a-cap-a-pe, how? inform.
John Marston. The Malcontent
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SCENE XXI.—CELIA, LELIO, SGANARELLE armed cap-a-pié, CELIA'S MAID.
Sganarelle: I wage war, a war of extermination against this robber of my honour, who without mercy has sullied my fair name.
Celia: (To Lelio, pointing to Sganarelle). Look on this man, and then you will require no further answer.
Lelio: Ah! I see.
Celia: A mere glance at him is sufficient to abash you.
Lelio: It ought rather to make you blush.
Molière. Sganarelle, or, the Self-Deceived Husband
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