flowery vs frou-frou

flowery

adj
  • overly complicated or elaborate; with grandiloquent expressions; marked by rhetorical elegance 

  • Decorated with or abundant in flowers. 

  • Pertaining to flowers. 

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. 

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