carmine vs frou-frou

carmine

noun
  • A purplish-red colour, resembling that pigment. 

  • A purplish-red pigment, made from dye obtained from the cochineal beetle; carminic acid or any of its derivatives. 

  • carmine 

adj
  • Of the purplish red colour shade carmine. 

frou-frou

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

verb
  • To move with the sound of rustling dresses. 

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

  • Unimportant, silly, useless. 

  • Highly ornamented, overly elaborate; excessively girly. 

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