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cap-apée

cap-apée adjective: armoured; in full armour, from head to toe.

Adjective

cap-apée (not comparable)

  1. Armoured; 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

Forms of cap-apée

alternative formcap-a-pie

Questions about cap-apée

What does cap-apée mean?
Cap-apée means armoured; in full armour, from head to toe.
What part of speech is cap-apée?
Cap-apée is an adjective.

Words near cap-apée in the dictionary

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

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