frou-frou vs maroon

frou-frou

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

verb
  • To move with the sound of rustling dresses. 

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

  • Unimportant, silly, useless. 

  • Highly ornamented, overly elaborate; excessively girly. 

maroon

noun
  • A rich dark red, somewhat brownish, color. 

  • A rocket-propelled firework or skyrocket, often one used as a signal (e.g. to summon the crew of a lifeboat or warn of an air raid). 

  • A castaway; a person who has been marooned. 

  • An idiot; a fool. 

  • An escaped negro of the Caribbean and the Americas or a descendant of such a person. 

verb
  • To abandon in a remote, desolate place, as on a desert island. 

adj
  • Of a maroon color 

  • Associated with Maroon culture, communities or peoples. 

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