cap-a-pie

短语

adv. 全身地, 完全地

别名

capape cap-à-pie cap-à-piè cap-à-pié cap-a-pe cap-a-pee cap-apée capapie

释义与例句

adv.
  1. 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, too, of craft and malice.

    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.

词汇关系

副词

同义词 1

from head to toe

词源

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

来源：wiktionary