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mêlée - translation to french
DISORGANIZED HAND-TO-HAND COMBAT FOUGHT AT CLOSE RANGE WITH LITTLE CONTROL ONCE STARTED
Meleé; Melée; Melee combat; Mêlée combat; Meele; Mêlée; Melees; Melee phase; Melee attack; Melee (warfare); Pell mell
![Melee aboard ships at the [[Battle of Sluys]] 1340 (BNF Fr. 2643, 15th century)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/BattleofSluys.jpeg?width=200 "Melee aboard ships at the [[Battle of Sluys]] 1340 (BNF Fr. 2643, 15th century)")
mêlée
n. melee, brawl; embroilment; tussle, wrangle
mêler
mix up, mix, shuffle, mingle
Mel
Mel, male or female first name (short form of names such as Melvin and Melanie)
Definition
melee
['m?le?]
¦ noun a confused crowd or scuffle.
Origin
C17: from Fr. melee, from an OFr. var. of meslee (see medley).
Wikipedia
Melee
A melee ( or , French: mêlée [mɛle]) or pell-mell is disorganized hand-to-hand combat in battles fought at abnormally close range with little central control once it starts. In military aviation, a melee has been defined as "[a]n air battle in which several aircraft, both friend and foe, are confusingly intermingled".
Examples of use of mêlée
1. " A Almeria, chez les nageurs, la joie est mêlée à linconnu.
2. Cette eau qui bien souvent s‘est mêlée au mazout des réservoirs crevés et donne à cette ville d‘un peu plus de '000 habitants des odeurs nauséabondes.
3. Tenu pour mort, sa réapparition, on limagine, a provoqué à la fois une stupéfaction indescriptible mêlée à une joie indicible des siens.
4. Dans un monde sportif macho, où les ambiguïtés restent refoulées dans la mêlée, sa «distorsion fille–garçon» provoque des sourires gênés.
5. Les dirigeants de la IIIe République, ayant compris la logique, devaient entrer, non sans succès, dans la «mêlée pour l‘Afrique», qui permit à la France de se bâtir, à son tour, un empire ouest–africain, assez pauvre en ressources.