frou-frou vs lovely

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. 

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

verb
  • To move with the sound of rustling dresses. 

lovely

adj
  • Beautiful; charming; very pleasing in form, looks, tone, or manner. 

  • Very nice, wonderful. 

noun
  • A lovely object. 

  • Term of fond address. 

  • An attractive, lovely person, especially a (professional) beauty. 

adv
  • In a lovely fashion or manner; beautifully. 

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