frou-frou vs punctilious

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. 

punctilious

adj
  • Precise or scrupulous; finicky or nitpicky. 

  • Strictly attentive to detail; meticulous or fastidious, particularly to codes or conventions. 

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