frou-frou vs genteel

frou-frou

• Highly ornamented, overly elaborate; excessively girly. 

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

• Unimportant, silly, useless. 

• To move with the sound of rustling dresses. 

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

genteel

• Stylish or elegant. 

• Aristocratic. 

• Affectedly proper or refined; somewhat prudish refinement; excessively polite. 

• Polite and well-mannered.