frou-frou vs sordid

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. 

sordid

adj
  • Distasteful, ignoble, vile, or contemptible. 

  • Of a dull colour. 

  • Morally degrading. 

  • Dirty or squalid. 

  • Grasping; stingy; avaricious. 

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