frou-frou vs gimcrack

frou-frou

adj
  • Unimportant, silly, useless. 

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

  • Highly ornamented, overly elaborate; excessively girly. 

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

verb
  • To move with the sound of rustling dresses. 

gimcrack

adj
  • Showy but of poor quality; worthless. 

verb
  • To embellish with gimcracks. 

  • To put together quickly and without much care; to bodge. 

noun
  • Something showy but worthless; a bauble or gimmick. 

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