frou-frou vs pinchbeck

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. 

verb
  • To move with the sound of rustling dresses. 

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

pinchbeck

adj
  • Sham; spurious, artificial; being a cheap substitution; only superficially attractive. 

  • Made of pinchbeck. 

noun
  • An alloy of copper and zinc once used as imitation gold for cheap jewelry. 

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