cap-a-pe

Updated: June 13, 2025

To our utter astonishment, confusion and dismay, instead of marching firmly forth armed "cap-a-pe" with nodding plume, and his bright and trusty steel girt round his loins, eager for the fight; lo and behold! he crept slowly and solemnly along, clad in a long flannel dressing gown and a pair of scarlet slippers.

Henry Hunt - Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 1