frou-frou

• “They don't like frou-frou funerals or embalming, and they object to cremation because of the mercury from dental fillings that gets into the atmosphere.”

  Questions for Mary Roach, author of Stiff

• “As the recession drags on, we're finding more families digging their own vegetable gardens, making fewer trips to supermarkets, and spending less on what might be called "economic frou-frou.”

  The Huffington Post: Rozanne Gold: Something to Chew On: Cooking as a New Teen Sport

• “I'm definitely not suggesting that it would be a good idea to mix ancient Mexican sculpture with deliciously frou-frou 18th and 19th century European Costumes.”

  The Huffington Post: Edward Goldman: Three Exhibitions Hardly Acknowledging Each Other

• “Her dress was awesome & different enough (not black!!!) that she did not look too frou-frou and out of her element.”

  Twilight Lexicon » Twilight Oscar Fashion Retrospective

• “Lillian Roth appears as a maid in this early musical, and her charming, vaudeville-style numbers are the only redeeming quality in this frou-frou trifle from director Ernst Lubitch.”

  Weekly Mishmash: January 25-31 : Scrubbles.net

• “Not because it is frou-frou and high-falutin, but because it represents Big Corporatism.”

  Matthew Yglesias » McDonald’s Or Starbucks

• “What he sees is a woman who has written true genius art, but doesn't know the difference between that and the frou-frou bulls--t that surrounds it," says Dreyfuss.”

  Richard Dreyfuss Enters the Hood

• “Lunch was at a frou-frou café called Anjou that served mostly salads and quiche.”

  Simon & Schuster: How to Flirt with A Naked Werewolf

• “It was Chanel who liberated ladies from decorative frou-frou that made them look static and staged, putting them in menswear separates like soft cardigans and roomy jackets.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Enduring Coco Chanel

• “If my guy friends saw me, I'd never bowl again, never play in a softball league in this town again and no gym in the tri-county area would have me aside from the frou-frou ones downtown.”

  Fictionaut: Unpleated

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