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cap-a-pie \cap-uh-PEE\, adverb:
From head to foot; at all points.

Yet it is increasingly hard to ignore other scientific predictions sashaying into the press dressed cap-a-pie in silver lining.
--Andrew Marr, "Skegness: not so much bracing as basking?" Daily Telegraph, January 14, 2004

The dress code was smart but informal and Cherie Blair cut an appropriately dark but bohemian figure dressed cap-a-pie in floor-length black leather.
--Cassandra Jardine, "Court of King Tony takes centre stage," Daily Telegraph, September 8, 2001

They are of one shade cap-a-pie, black as midnight and fleet of wing.
--M.D. Harmon, "Sorry, but it's true: Birds of a feather do flock together," Portland Press Herald, January 5, 2004

In another age, there would have been beheadings, clanging prison doors in the dark Tower; there would have been a second royal court with an army preparing to do battle, prancing steeds and knights armored cap-a-pie.
--Arnold Beichman, "Spellbinding farewell . . . and fantasy," Washington Times, September 10, 1997

cap-a-pie is from Middle French (de) cap a pé, "from head to foot," from Latin ped, "foot" + caput, "head."