frou-frou
Part of speech: noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Borrowed from French frou-frou, an onomatopoeia.
Inflected forms:
form: frou-frous
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: froufrou
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: froo-froo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: fru-fru
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: froofroo
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: frufru
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: more frou-frou
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most frou-frou
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: froufrou
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: froo-froo
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: fru-fru
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: froofroo
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: frufru
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A rustling sound, particularly the rustling of a large silk dress.
pos: noun
tags: onomatopoeic
examples: The modern frou-frou of satin and gros-de-Naples skirts is nothing to the rustling of brocaded silks.
[…]the frou-frou of life was lost to her[…]
She was pretty, charming, and, moreover, a widow. And because of this she at once had at heel any number of Eldorado Kings, officials, and adventuring younger sons, whose ears were yearning for the frou-frou of a woman’s skirts.
“Now, Watson, the fair sex is your department,” said Holmes, with a smile, when the dwindling frou-frou of skirts had ended in the slam of the front door.
Lord Grenville took a hasty farewell of the ladies and slipped back into his box, where M. Chauvelin had sat all through this entr’acte, with his eternal snuff-box in his hand, and with his keen pale eyes intently fixed upon a box opposite to him, where, with much frou-frou of silken skirts, much laughter and general stir of curiosity amongst the audience, […]
Impervious to the cheap perfumes
 and the frou-frou of young ladies' skirts,
he finally and with deepest dread
plunged ahead, banging in his ignorance
on the keys as if they were a snare drum.
gloss: Liable to create the sound of rustling cloth, similar to 19th-century dresses.
pos: adj
gloss: Highly ornamented, overly elaborate; excessively girly.
pos: adj
examples: They ate in a frou-frou restaurant at the top of a skyscraper.
Kinda like a frou-frou dessert at a chichi restaurant, restaurant.
This is a column for a Sunday paper, designed to be absorbed at leisure, over coffee and frou-frou pastries, at around noon.
For the price of a frou-frou Starbucks drink, a Netflix subscriber could binge this content ad nauseam without suffering through a single commercial – the ideal home viewing experience.
gloss: Unimportant, silly, useless.
pos: adj
tags: derogatory
examples: Bob was off faffing about doing frou-frou nonsense whilst Edwina kept her nose to the grindstone.
Barack Obama, out of touch with the working man as usual, has an aggressive program for carbon emissions reductions and has spoken of the need for such frou-frou measures as increased investment in transit infrastructure, intercity rail, and even bicycling.
Dr. Okorie: Those paintings on the walls have a definite effect on people. A very specific definite effect, with wildly variable results. Would you call them de-inhibitors, Lillian?
Dr. Lillihammer: I'd call them cognition divergence vectors. I've already got the paper half-written in my mind.
Dr. Blank: Explain it to us froufrou hard and social scientists.
Dr. Wettle: I'm not froufrou, you're froufrou.
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