cap-apée

English

Adjective

cap-apée (not comparable)

1. Armoured; in full armour, from head to toe.
   • 1804, Joanna Baillie, Constantine Paleologus, act 3:

     Those grizly hangmen, in their canvass sleeves,
     Fight for me better than an armed band
     Of christian knights full cap-apée.

Alternative forms

• cap-a-pie