noun, feminine/mɛ.le/plural: mêlées
mêlée is feminine in French.
fray, brawl, fight, melee (especially disorganized); scrum
“la mêlée pour monter dans le train” — the squabble to get on the train
Inherited from Old French meslee, older meslede, from the feminine past participle of early Medieval Latin misculō, derived from Latin misceō. By surface analysis, mêl- + -ée.