frou-frou vs gilt

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. 

gilt

noun
  • Gold-colored paint or other coating. 

  • A young female pig, at or nearing the age of first breeding. 

  • Gold or other metal in a thin layer; gilding. 

  • A security issued by the Bank of England (see gilt-edged). 

  • Money. 

adj
  • Golden coloured. 

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