baroque vs frou-frou

baroque

adj
  • Ornate, intricate, decorated, laden with detail. 

  • Embellished with figures and forms such that every level of relief gives way to more details and contrasts. 

  • Chiseled from stone, or shaped from wood, in a garish, crooked, twisted, or slanted sort of way, grotesque. 

  • Overly and needlessly complicated. 

  • Complex and beautiful, despite an outward irregularity. 

  • Characteristic of Western art music of about the same period. 

noun
  • An ornate, detailed style. 

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