clinquant vs frill

clinquant

noun
  • Tinsel; glitter. 

  • Dutch metal. 

adj
  • Glittery; gleaming; sparkling; dressed in, or overlaid with, tinsel finery. 

frill

noun
  • A substance or material on the edge of something, resembling such a strip of fabric. 

  • A wrinkled edge to a film. 

  • A strip of pleated fabric or paper used as decoration or trim. 

  • Something extraneous or not essential; something purely for show or effect; a luxury. 

  • The relatively extensive margin seen on the back of the heads of reptiles, with either a bony support or a cartilaginous one. 

verb
  • To become wrinkled. 

  • To provide or decorate with a frill or frills; to turn back in crimped plaits. 

  • To make into a frill. 

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