capade (kapad)

[Origin uncertain.] In hat - making, a bat. E. H. Knight. cap-a-pie (kap-a-pē'), adv. [Earlier also cap - a pe, cap -a- pee, сарарее, cape - a - pe; a pie, from head to foot (now de pied en cap, From from foot to head): cap, head (see cape2 ); pie, pied, See cuts under armor. Arm'd at all points, exactly, cap - a - pe . Shak., Hamlet, i. 2. IMG:content-3077.png:[blocks in formation] Far from being disheartened, however, he was seen, armed cap - a - pie , on horseback from dawn to evening. caparison (ka-par'i-son), n. [OF. caparas son, caper a on , F. caparaçon , caparazon = Pg . caparazão , a cover for a saddle, a cover for a coach, a kind of aug. of capa , a cloak, cover, cара , сарра , а саpe: see cap1 and capel .] 1. A cloth or covering, more or le ornamented, laid over the saddle or furniture of a horse, especially of a sumpter-horse or horse of state. What cares he now for curb or pricking spur? For rich caparisons or trapping gay? Shak., Venus and Adonis, 1. 286. IMG:content-3078.png:[blocks in formation] Pg. cabo, a cape, headland, end, extremity, It. also lit. a head, does she cape?