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Originally Posted by KyBunnies
Read & finished a historical romance Saturday. Book was suppose to be set after the civil war (I think) and the author used duffel bag and casserole dish and beef noodle bake. Really don't think these are something that people would say during that time.
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I am sometimes surprised at the age of things I thought were relatively new and weren't, so I took at look at the
Online Etymology Dictionary:
- duffle: 1670s, from Dutch duffel, from Duffel, town in Brabant where the cloth was originally sold. Duffel bag is American English, first recorded 1917 in a letter of e e cummings.
- casserole: 1706, "stew pan," from French casserole "sauce pan" (16c.), diminutive of Middle French casse "pan" (14c.), from Provençal cassa "melting pan," from Medieval Latin cattia "pan, vessel," possibly from Greek kyathion, diminutive of kyathos "cup for the wine bowl." Originally the pan, since c.1930 also of the dishes cooked in it, via cookery phrases such as en casserole, à la casserole.
- beef noodle bake: I didn't have any luck with this one
So it looks like while there were aspects of the phrases, it may not be the exact usage in the timeframe of your story.
