frou-frou

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[…]

Liable to create the sound of rustling cloth, similar to 19th-century dresses.

Highly ornamented, overly elaborate; excessively girly.

They ate in a frou-frou restaurant at the top of a skyscraper.

Kinda like a frou-frou dessert at a chichi restaurant, restaurant.

Unimportant, silly, useless.

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.

To move with the sound of rustling dresses.

“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[…]