All 10 Uses
mêlée
in
A Storm of Swords
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- I won a tourney melee at thirteen, when I was yet a squire.†
p. 158.3 *melee = disorganized mass of people
- There was a great seven-sided melee as well, and archery and axe-throwing, a horse race and tourney of singers ...†
p. 341.4
- In mêlées, you'd curse my flaming sword, though thrice I overthrew you with it.†
p. 462.1mêlées = disorganized masses of people
- Besides the jousting, there was a melee in the old style fought between seven teams of knights, as well as archery and axe-throwing, a horse race, a tournament of singers, a mummer show, and many feasts and frolics.†
p. 586.5melee = disorganized mass of people
- The first time I rode into a melee with a flaming sword, Kevan Lannister's horse reared and threw him and His Grace laughed so hard I thought he might rupture.†
p. 591.8
- Once I near killed him in a melee.†
p. 687.9
- Victor in the mêlée at Maidenpool.†
p. 915.1
- I've fought in tourneys, melees, and battles throughout the Seven Kingdoms.†
p. 920.2melees = disorganized masses of people
- Ser Balon, I have watched you tilt many a time, and fought with and against you in mêlées.†
p. 921.6
- She won the mêlée with a trick.†
p. 924.1mêlée = disorganized mass of people
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)