"mêlée" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Borrowed from French mêlée.",
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          "ref": "1988, Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, William Heinemann Ltd, page 218",
          "text": "What could the Draycotts possibly be doing here? And where, in such a mêlée, could the Draycotts possibly be?",
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