cap-apée

adj

cap-apée

adj
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:

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