frou-frou
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frou-frou
- /ˈfɹuːfɹuː/ UK, US
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French frou-frou, an onomatopoeia.
noun frou-frous · froufrou · froo-froo · fru-fru · froofroo · frufru
- A rustling sound, particularly the rustling of a large silk dress. The modern frou-frou of satin and gros-de-Naples skirts is nothing to the rustling of brocaded silks.
adjective more frou-frou · most frou-frou · froufrou · froo-froo · fru-fru · froofroo
- Liable to create the sound of rustling cloth, similar to 19th-century dresses.
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Highly ornamented, overly elaborate; excessively girly.
They ate in a frou-frou restaurant at the top of a skyscraper.
Similar: fruffy
- Unimportant, silly, useless. Bob was off faffing about doing frou-frou nonsense whilst Edwina kept her nose to the grindstone.
verb frou-frous · frou-frouing · frou-froued · froufrou · froo-froo
- To move with the sound of rustling dresses. “Oh, you funny girl! You look so surprised. Confess, now, there's nothing you can hide from me,” and ruffling my hair as she passed she frou-froued out of the room.
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