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▪ I. ‖ frou-frou, n.|fruː fruː|
[Fr.; of echoic formation.]
A rustling, esp. the rustling of a dress.
1870Athenæum 4 June 734 The modern frou-frou of satin and gros-de-Naples skirts is nothing to the rustling of brocaded silks. 1871M. Collins Mrq. & Merch. III. v. 155 With a frou-frou of soft silk she arose. 1891Speaker 2 May 527/1 The rustle of the dresses, the frou-frou of the fans.
fig.1876Besant & Rice Gold. Butterfly vi, The frou-frou of life was lost to her. 1883‘Ouida’ Wanda II. 4 The Princess fretted for some little frou-frou of the world to break its solemn silence.
▪ II. frou-frou, v.
[f. the n.]
intr. To move about with a rustle of draperies. Only in frou-frouing.
1905Truth 18 May 1289/2 Frou-frouing femininities. 1909M. B. Saunders Litany Lane ii. xvii, She found herself floating and frou-frouing up Majorson's monastic stairs. 1958A. Wilson Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot ii. 166 Up those stairs should have come frou-frouing skirts. |