Layers

Tie
Rope
Lyonnaise 

Lyonesse
Layers 

Onion

West Point

Matthew 7:15
“Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.”

 

 

 "Of Faery damsels met in forest wide

By knights of Logres, or of Lyones,

Lancelot, or Pelleas, or Pellenore,"~~~MILTON: Paradise Regained, II, 359

IN POINT OF FACT

"A figure like your Father,

Arm'd at all points exactly, cap-a-pe,

Appears before them."~~~SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet, I, ii.

Think of a medieval knight riding off to battle completely encased (from head to foot, as it were) in armor. Knights thus outfitted were said to be "armed cap-a-pie." The term cap-a-pie (or cap-à-pie), which has been used in English since at least the 16th century, descends from the Middle French phrase de cap a pé, meaning "from head to foot." Nowadays, it is generally extended to more figurative armor, as in "armed cap-a-pie against criticism." Cap-a-pie has also been credited with parenting another English phrase. Some people think the expression "apple-pie order," meaning "perfect order," may have originated as a corruption of "cap-a-pie order." The evidence for that theory is far from orderly, however, and it must be regarded as speculative.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chess: "Tie" "Rope" "Lyonnaise" "Layers" "Onion"