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mêlée
in
A Thousand Splendid Suns
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There was a melee in the yard.†
p. 170.9

melee = disorganized mass of people
Later that evening, Laila thought of how the melee had toppled over, with men falling on top of one another, amid yelps and cries and shouts and flying punches, and, in the middle of it, a grimacing Tariq, his hair disheveled, his leg come undone, trying to crawl out.†
p. 171.6 *
A melee of people had gathered there.†
p. 275.9
As she fought her way with impudent resolve to the front of the melee, Mariam wished she had been a better daughter to Nana.†
p. 287.6

Definitions:

(1) (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
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)