frou-frou vs rosy

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. 

rosy

adj
  • Rose-coloured. 

  • Resembling rose, as in scent of perfume. 

  • Optimistic. 

noun
  • tea 

verb
  • To make pinkish in colour. 

  • To present in a deceptively optimistic or positive light. 

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