frou-frou vs gaudy

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. 

gaudy

adj
  • Very showy or ornamented, now especially when excessive, or in a tasteless or vulgar manner. 

noun
  • A reunion held by one of the colleges of the University of Oxford for alumni, normally held during the long vacation. 

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