Frou-frou

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.

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.

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.

“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.

[…]frou-frouing femininities[…]