frou-frou vs glamour

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. 

glamour

noun
  • A kind of haze in the air, causing things to appear different from what they really are. 

  • Any excitement, appeal, or attractiveness associated with a person, place, or thing; that which makes something appealing. 

  • An item, motif, person, image that by association improves appearance. 

  • Alluring beauty or charm (often with sex appeal). 

  • Originally, enchantment; magic charm; especially, the effect of a spell that causes one to see objects in a form that differs from reality, typically to make filthy, ugly, or repulsive things seem beauteous. 

  • Any artificial interest in, or association with, objects, or persons, through which they appear delusively magnified or glorified. 

verb
  • To enchant; to bewitch. 

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