dashing vs frou-frou

dashing

adj
  • Chic, fashionable. 

  • Spirited, audacious and full of high spirits. 

noun
  • The action of the verb to dash. 

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