frou-frou vs kitsch

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. 

kitsch

adj
  • Of art and decor: of questionable aesthetic value; excessively sentimental, overdone or vulgar. 

noun
  • Art, decorative objects, and other forms of representation of questionable artistic or aesthetic value; a representation that is excessively sentimental, overdone, or vulgar. 

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