- mêlée
[mêlée 词源字典]
- mêlée: see mix
[mêlée etymology, mêlée origin, 英语词源] - melee (n.)
- 1640s, from French mêlée, from Old French meslee "brawl, confused fight; mixture, blend" (12c.), noun use of fem. past participle of mesler "to mix, mingle" (see meddle). See also medley. Borrowed in Middle English as melle but lost and then reborrowed 17c.