démêlén.
Discussion between parties having opposite interests; debate, contention, quarrel.
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society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] > a quarrel
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ruck1958
1661 J. Evelyn Faithfull Narr. in Diary & Corr. (1859) I. 431 During this demeslè..a bold and dextrous fellow..cut the ham-strings of two of them.
1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor viii*, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. II. 179 At the risk of a demêlée with a cook.
1834 C. C. F. Greville Mem. (1874) III. xxiii. 69 There is a fresh démêlé with Russia.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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