Definition & Meaning | English word FROU-FROU
FROU-FROU
Definitions of FROU-FROU
- Liable to create the sound of rustling cloth, similar to 19th-century dresses.
- Highly ornamented, overly elaborate; excessively girly.
- (uncommon, intransitive) To move with the sound of rustling dresses.
- (onomatopoeia) A rustling sound, particularly the rustling of a large silk dress.
- (pejorative) Unimportant, silly, useless.
Number of letters
9
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using FROU-FROU in a Sentence
- After a break of a few years, Capucine appeared in Mademoiselle from Paris (1955) and Frou-Frou (1955).
- Lolo, Dodo, Jou-Jou, Frou-Frou, Clo-Clo and Margot (can-can dancing grisettes) in The Merry Widow 1905: operetta by Franz Lehár; and 1975: ballet adaptation using Lehar's music.
- Frou-Frou cocoa, H Hamstra & Co, Droste & Co, blikje (6 ounces), origineel Hollanse Java Thee, foto 5.
- Haddon Chambers and the following year supported Olga Nethersole, playing the leading juvenile roles in Camille, Denise by Alexander Dumas, Frou-Frou by Henri Meilhac, The Wife of Scarli by Giuseppe Giacosa and The Daughter of France, after which came two years as leading man with Herbert Kelcey and Effie Shannon in A Coat of Many Colors and Clyde Fitch's The Moth and the Flame.
- The spacewomen are rather fetchingly clad in a mixture of frou-frou and black leather; and the cast – particularly the ingenuous Ava Cadell as the frequently oil-besmirched engineer – achieve a kind of capering charm.
- Ben Kingsley as Archibald Snatcher, a ruthless, arrogant, antagonistic and cunning pest exterminator who also cross-dresses as Madame Frou-Frou.
- July 24: Ruth Buzzi, American actress and comedian (voice of Granny Goodwitch in Linus the Lionhearted, Gladys in Baggy Pants and the Nitwits, Mama Bear in The Berenstain Bears, Nose Marie in Pound Puppies, Felonia Funk in Rockin' with Judy Jetson, Delilah in Sheep in the Big City, Nandy in Cro, singing voice of Frou-Frou in The Aristocats).
- He collaborated with many Parisian newspapers and magazines, including La Baïonnette, Le Charivari, Le Frou-frou, L'Assiette au Beurre, Le Rire, Gil Blas illustré, La Libre Parole illustrée, and La Vie Parisienne, as well as children's magazines.
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