frou-frou vs gracious

frou-frou

adj
  • Highly ornamented, overly elaborate; excessively girly. 

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

  • Unimportant, silly, useless. 

verb
  • To move with the sound of rustling dresses. 

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

gracious

adj
  • indulgent, charming and graceful 

  • benignant 

  • compassionate 

  • elegant and with good taste 

  • kind and warmly courteous 

  • full of grace 

  • magnanimous, without arrogance or complaint, benevolently declining to raise controversy or insist on possible prerogatives. 

  • tactful 

intj
  • Expression of surprise, contempt, outrage, disgust, boredom, or frustration. 

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