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cap-a-pee

cap-a-pee is the obsolete form of cap-a-pie.

Meaning of cap-a-pie

Adverb

cap-a-pie (not comparable)

  1. From head to toe, especially of armor or other military accoutrements.
    • 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...1661–67, Abraham Cowley, The Dangers of an Honest Man in much Company

Forms of cap-a-pee

comparativemore cap-a-pee
superlativemost cap-a-pee

Questions about cap-a-pee

What is cap-a-pee the obsolete form of?
Cap-a-pee is the obsolete form of cap-a-pie.

Words near cap-a-pee in the dictionary

  1. cap'in
  2. cap'ins
  3. cap'n
  4. Cap'n Obvious
  5. cap'ns
  6. cap-a-pee
  7. cap-a-pie
  8. cap-apée
  9. Cap-de-la-Madeleine
  10. Cap-enese
  11. cap-flap

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Adapted from Wiktionary: cap-a-pee (page history and authors); cap-a-pie (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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