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Combat's intimate setting: too close for guns, too close for regrets.
means A confused, close-quarters fight where combatants are tangled together rather than facing off at a distance.
from Borrowed from French mêlée, meaning a mixing or mingling, from mêler 'to mix,' which traces back to Latin miscere — the same root that gives us 'mix' and 'miscellaneous.' The word carried its sense of chaotic blending straight into English, first for brawls and skirmishes, later stretched to any tangled scrum of bodies or ideas.
- etymology
- French for mixed, or mingled, battle
- gaming legacy
- super smash bros melee still has esports leagues
- range
- basically zero — arm's length or less