fashionable vs frou-frou

fashionable

noun
  • A fashionable person; a fop. 

adj
  • Characteristic of or influenced by a current popular trend or style. 

  • Established or favoured by custom or use; current; prevailing at a particular time. 

frou-frou

noun
  • A rustling sound, particularly the rustling of a large silk dress. 

verb
  • To move with the sound of rustling dresses. 

adj
  • Liable to create the sound of rustling cloth, similar to 19th-century dresses. 

  • Unimportant, silly, useless. 

  • Highly ornamented, overly elaborate; excessively girly. 

How often have the words fashionable and frou-frou occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )