coarse vs frou-frou

coarse

adj
  • Of inferior quality. 

  • Composed of large particles. 

  • Lacking refinement, taste or delicacy. 

  • With a rough texture; not smooth. 

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. 

verb
  • To move with the sound of rustling dresses. 

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

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