barbarous vs frou-frou

barbarous

adj
  • Uncivilized, uncultured. 

  • Mercilessly or impudently violent or cruel, savage. 

  • Not classical or pure. 

  • Like a barbarian, especially in sound; noisy, dissonant. 

frou-frou

adj
  • Unimportant, silly, useless. 

  • Liable to create the sound of rustling cloth, similar to 19th-century dresses. 

  • Highly ornamented, overly elaborate; excessively girly. 

noun
  • A rustling sound, particularly the rustling of a large silk dress. 

verb
  • To move with the sound of rustling dresses. 

How often have the words barbarous and frou-frou occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )