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/ˈfɹuːfɹuː/ · noun
(onomatopoeia) 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.
[…]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.
They ate in a frou-frou restaurant at the top of a skyscraper.
Kinda like a frou-frou dessert at a chichi restaurant, restaurant.
Use frou-frou when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Frou-frou means (onomatopoeia) A rustling sound, particularly the rustling of a large silk dress..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The modern frou-frou of satin and gros-de-Naples skirts is nothing to the rustling of brocaded silks.
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