mêlée
See also: melee
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French mêlée.
Noun
mêlée (plural mêlées)
- Alternative spelling of melee
- 1988, Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, William Heinemann Ltd, page 218:
- What could the Draycotts possibly be doing here? And where, in such a mêlée, could the Draycotts possibly be?
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French
Etymology
From Old French meslee, older meslede, from Vulgar Latin *misculāta (“mixed”), feminine past participle of *misculō, ultimately from Latin misceō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɛ.le/, /me.le/
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Noun
mêlée f (plural mêlées)
- fray
- (rugby) scrum
Participle
mêlée f sg
- feminine singular of the past participle of mêler
Derived terms
- demi de mêlée
Further reading
- “mêlée”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.