Mixed-up : nm (or melecasse). Mixture of brandy and blackcurrant.
Melee-casse voice: hoarse like that of drunkards.
Mêlé-casse (or mélécasse or mélécasse), it is, undoubtedly an abbreviation of melacassis, a drink associating or mixing eau-de-vie and blackcurrant liqueur. The fact remains that whatever alcohol is consumed without moderation, rogomme, malecassis, absinthe or other, we know that it can have harmful effects on the voice, often making it hoarse. It is from this observation that voices of this type were called rogum voice from the beginning of the XNUMXth century, version now fallen into disuse, or else molasses voice half a century later, a form that can still be heard or read here and there.