"cap-a-pie" meaning in English

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        "2": "de pied en cap"
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  "etymology_text": "From Old French (de) cap a pié (Modern French de pied en cap).",
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          "ref": "1661–67, Abraham Cowley, The Dangers of an Honest Man in much Company",
          "text": "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."
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          "ref": "1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 129",
          "text": "I sallied forth cap-à-pie in my Madras regimentals, intending to accompany Brent to Westminster Abbey, and to take a coach at the first stand we came to."
        },
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          "ref": "1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers",
          "text": "Miss Thorne when fully dressed might be said to have been armed cap-a-pie, and she was always fully dressed, as far as was ever known to mortal man.",
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        "From head to toe, especially of armor or other military accoutrements."
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          "word": "cap-à-pie"
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        {
          "word": "cap-a-pe"
        },
        {
          "word": "cap-a-pee"
        },
        {
          "word": "cap-apée"
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        {
          "word": "capapie"
        }
      ],
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        "not-comparable"
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  "word": "cap-a-pie"
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          "text": "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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1808–10, William Hickey, Memoirs of a Georgian Rake, Folio Society 1995, p. 129",
          "text": "I sallied forth cap-à-pie in my Madras regimentals, intending to accompany Brent to Westminster Abbey, and to take a coach at the first stand we came to."
        },
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      "word": "cap-à-pie"
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      "word": "cap-à-piè"
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    {
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    },
    {
      "word": "cap-a-pe"
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    {
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      "word": "capapie"
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