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Definitions of melees in various dictionaries:
noun - a noisy riotous fight
noun - a confused struggle
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| Rows |
| Set-tos |
| Fights |
| Free-for-alls |
| Bench-clearing brawls |
| Donnybrooks |
| Scuffles |
| Some hockey scenes |
| Brawls |
| Rhubarbs |
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| Plural form of melee. |
| a confused fight or scuffle. |
| Melees might refer to |
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| Melee ( or , French: mêlée [mle]) or pell-mell battle generally refers to disorganized close combat in battles fought at abnormally close range with little central control once it starts.In the 1579 translation of Plutarch's Lives of the noble Grecians and Romanes, Sir Thomas North uses the term 'pelmel' to refer to a disorganized retreat. The phrase was later used in its current spelling in Shakespeare's Richard III, 1594:* "March on, ioine brauelie, let vs to it pell mell, If not to heauen then hand in hand to hell." * * The phrase comes from the French expression pêle-mêle, a rhyme based on the old French mesler, meaning to mix or mingle. * The French term melee was first used in English in c. 1640 (also derived from the old French mesler, but the Old French stem survives in medley and meddle).In military aviation, a melee has been described as "[a]n air battle in which several aircraft, both friend and foe, are confusingly intermingled".Lord Nelson described his tactics for the Battl |
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| AFFRAYS |
| AISLES |
| BATTLES |
| BOUTS |
| BRAWLS |
| COMBATS |
| disturbances |
| DONNYBROOKS |
| DUELS |
| dustups |