Definition of muesli
:a breakfast cereal of Swiss origin consisting of rolled oats, nuts, and fruit
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At La Réserve, the charming hotel in fashion designer Pierre Cardin’s former home, a silver tray arrived with muesli and almond milk, a bracing ginger tea, and some vegan bread.
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The bowls skew sweet, like muesli with hibiscus-poached pear for breakfast, or savory, the veg sprinkled with buzz ingredients like sumac and black sesame.
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Share via facebook dialogShare via Pinterest The beds are outfitted with super soft linens, there’s under-floor heating to keep you warm, a solar shower, and your stay includes an in-pod dinner and a breakfast of organic muesli and yogurt.
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This muesli keeps well for a week in the refrigerator.
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The lavish on-board breakfast buffet included a heaping bowl of a creamy-style, cold muesli (oats mixed with yogurt, milk, nuts and fruit, etc.) specifically prepared for the tastes of European guests.
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Origin and Etymology of muesli
borrowed from Swiss German Müesli, diminutive of Mues "soft food, mush, pulp," going back to Old High German muos, going back to West Germanic *mōsa- "food, soft food" (whence Old Saxon, Old English & Old Frisian mōs "food, prepared food"), probably from *mōt-, lengthened grade derivative of *mati- "food" + a suffixal -t- — more at meat
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