Both Uses of
mêlée
in
Dune
- Beneath them on the floor of the cave swirled a melee of struggling figures.†
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- They came in a hissing wedge, robes whipping in the wind as they cut through the melee on the plain.†
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Definition:
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(mêlée) a disorganized mass of people -- especially engaged in hand-to-hand combat, or rioting, or all going different directions and bumping into each other