dapper vs frou-frou

dapper

adj
  • Stylishly dressed, neatly dressed, spiffy. 

  • Quick; little and active. 

  • Neat, trim. 

frou-frou

adj
  • Highly ornamented, overly elaborate; excessively girly. 

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

  • Unimportant, silly, useless. 

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 dapper and frou-frou occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )