frou frou

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Synonyms: froufrou, frou-frou

Antonyms: froufrou, frou-frou

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Noun

1. A rustling sound, particularly the rustling of a large silk dress.

Adjective

1. Liable to create the sound of rustling cloth, similar to 19th-century dresses.
2. Highly ornamented, overly elaborate; excessively girly.
   • They ate in a frou-frou restaurant at the top of a skyscraper.
3. Unimportant, silly, useless.
   • Bob was off faffing about doing frou-frou nonsense whilst Edwina kept her nose to the grindstone.

Verb

1. To move with the sound of rustling dresses.

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