All 15 Uses
mêlée
in
A Game of Thrones
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- Twenty thousand to the man who comes second, another twenty to the winner of the melee, and ten thousand to the victor of the archery competition.†
p. 194.1 *melee = disorganized mass of people
- By then, the moon was well up and the crowd was tired, so the king decreed that the last three matches would be fought the next morning, before the melee.†
p. 298.2
- "The king means to fight in the melee today," Ser Barristan said as they were passing Ser Meryn's shield, its paint sullied by a deep gash where Loras Tyrell's lance had scarred the wood as he drove him from his saddle.†
p. 306.8
- The woman tried to forbid me to fight in the melee.†
p. 308.6
- She would have told you that you have no business in the melee.†
p. 308.7
- "Your Grace," he said, "it is not seemly that the king should ride into the melee.†
p. 309.1
- The dangers of the melee were only a savor to Robert, but this touched on his pride.†
p. 309.2
- The melee went on for three hours.†
p. 317.1
- He had won melees before; the fire sword frightened the mounts of the other riders, and nothing frightened Thoros.†
p. 317.3melees = disorganized masses of people
- They had hoped to kill him during the melee.†
p. 320.4melee = disorganized mass of people
- Tell me truly, do you know any surer way to force King Robert into the melee?†
p. 320.7
- There were forty riders in the melee.†
p. 320.8
- Robert had asked him the very same question, the morning of the melee.†
p. 486.1
- He remembered Brandon's laughter, and Robert's berserk valor in the melee, the way he laughed as he unhorsed men left and right.†
p. 631.1
- Jared are too old for the lists now, but Danwell and Hosteen rode, Perwyn as well, and a couple of my bastards tried the melee.†
p. 648.5
Definitions:
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(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)