frou-frou vs suave

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. 

suave

adj
  • Charming, confident and elegant. 

noun
  • Sweet talk. 

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