dainty vs frou-frou

dainty

adj
  • Elegant; delicately small and pretty. 

  • Fastidious and fussy, especially when eating. 

noun
  • A delicacy (in taste). 

  • A fancy cookie, pastry, or square, frequently homemade, served at a social event. 

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