Synonyms for frou-frou
| Grammar : Adj |
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Définition 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
- 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
Antonyms for frou-frou
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