Pronounced: TIE-muhn, noun
Notes: Another word I don’t know
Yesterday’s word
The word cap-a-pie means “head to foot”
First usage
Our word came into English in the early 1500s
Background / Comments
Our word goes back to medieval times, when knights were completely encased in armor (from head to foot). They were said to be “armed cap-a-pie”, which came from the Middle French phrase de cap a pe (from head to foot). These days, our word can refer to figurative order. Interestingly (but this is merely speculation), the phrase “apple-pie order” may be derived from a corruption of our word “cap-a-pie order”.
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