Usually means: Excessively fancy or frilly decoration.
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  1. frou-frou: Merriam-Webster
  2. Frou-Frou, frou-frou: Wordnik
  3. frou-frou: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  4. frou-frou: Wiktionary
  5. frou-frou: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  6. frou-frou: Dictionary.com
  7. frou-frou: Online Etymology Dictionary
  8. Frou-Frou: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. frou-frou: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. frou-frou: Wordcraft Dictionary

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  1. frou-frou: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (frou-frou)

noun:  (onomatopoeia) A rustling sound, particularly the rustling of a large silk dress.
adjective:  Liable to create the sound of rustling cloth, similar to 19th-century dresses.
adjective:  Highly ornamented, overly elaborate; excessively girly.
adjective:  (derogatory) Unimportant, silly, useless.
verb:  (uncommon, intransitive) To move with the sound of rustling dresses.

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