frou-frou vs ignoble

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. 

ignoble

adj
  • Not honorable; base. 

  • Not noble; plebeian; common. 

  • Not a true or "noble" falcon; said of certain hawks, such as the goshawk. 

verb
  • To make ignoble; to bring low. 

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