frou-frou vs geranium

frou-frou

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

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

  • Unimportant, silly, useless. 

  • Highly ornamented, overly elaborate; excessively girly. 

verb
  • To move with the sound of rustling dresses. 

geranium

noun
  • A bright red color tinted with orange, like that of a scarlet geranium. 

  • The common name for flowering plants of the genus Pelargonium. 

  • Any flowering plant of the genus Geranium, the cranesbills, of family Geraniaceae. 

adj
  • Of a bright red color tinted with orange, like that of a scarlet geranium. 

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