Antonyms for frou-frou

Grammar : Adj

Definition of frou-frou

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

As in gaudy : adj bright and vulgar

Example sentences :

Frou-frou is a creature that can love, can suffer, can repent, can die.
Extract from : « Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida » by Ouida

But Frou-frou is in no sense the true Femme Galante of her day.
Extract from : « Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida » by Ouida

Frou-frou, who stands for her, is not in the least the true type.
Extract from : « Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida » by Ouida

But before we left him he insisted that we should sit through his favourite "Frou-Frou."
Extract from : « Poor Folk in Spain » by Jan Gordon

We can almost hear the frou-frou of their garments in his pictures.
Extract from : « Watteau » by C. Lewis Hind

No people in their right senses could have accepted my "Frou-Frou" instead of Sarah's.
Extract from : « The Story of My Life » by Ellen Terry

And she went out, and I heard by the frou-frou of her skirts that she was ascending the stairs.
Extract from : « The Czar's Spy » by William Le Queux

The soft "frou-frou" of the dry grass beneath him sounded to his excited fancy like the sudden rushing of a torrent.
Extract from : « Queensland Cousins » by Eleanor Luisa Haverfield

Suddenly the silence of the room was broken by the frou-frou of a silk dress in the corridor outside.
Extract from : « The Quiver 12/1899 » by Anonymous

The breeze murmured more persistently, and anon with its dreamlike sound there mingled the frou-frou of a woman's skirts.
Extract from : « Petticoat Rule » by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy

Synonyms for frou-frou

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