a la mode vs frou-frou

a la mode

adj
  • Fashionable; in the current style or fashion. 

  • Served with ice cream. 

  • Of beef: larded and stewed with vegetables. 

adv
  • In a particular style or fashion. 

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