frou-frou

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adj bright and vulgar

adjective. bright and vulgar

1870, "a rustling," from French (19c.), possibly imitative of the rustling of a dress. Meaning "fussy details" is from 1876.

Frou-frou, who stands for her, is not in the least the true type.

Frou-frou is a creature that can love, can suffer, can repent, can die.

But Frou-frou is in no sense the true Femme Galante of her day.

But before we left him he insisted that we should sit through his favourite "Frou-Frou."

We can almost hear the frou-frou of their garments in his pictures.

No people in their right senses could have accepted my "Frou-Frou" instead of Sarah's.

And she went out, and I heard by the frou-frou of her skirts that she was ascending the stairs.

The soft "frou-frou" of the dry grass beneath him sounded to his excited fancy like the sudden rushing of a torrent.

Suddenly the silence of the room was broken by the frou-frou of a silk dress in the corridor outside.

The breeze murmured more persistently, and anon with its dreamlike sound there mingled the frou-frou of a woman's skirts.