frou-frou vs vermilion

frou-frou

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

verb
  • To move with the sound of rustling dresses. 

adj
  • Liable to create the sound of rustling cloth, similar to 19th-century dresses. 

  • Unimportant, silly, useless. 

  • Highly ornamented, overly elaborate; excessively girly. 

vermilion

noun
  • A type of red dye worn in the parting of the hair by married Hindu women. 

  • A vivid red synthetic pigment made of mercury sulfide, cinnabar. 

  • A bright orange-red colour. 

  • The red skin of the lips or its border with the skin of the face. 

verb
  • To color or paint vermilion. 

adj
  • Having a brilliant red colour. 

  • Having the color of the vermilion dye. 

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