froufrou

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The murmur of their talk and their laughter reached us, along with the froufrou of their silken petticoats.

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  • It's a no-froufrou joint, just drinking, watching sports on the overhead televisions, and drinking Two or three times a week, Sutpen and I meet there after work. —  EQMM,May2007
  • Everywhere you look these days, the functional is getting a coat of froufrou. —  azcentral.com | news
  • And, naturally, the decidedly un-chic froufrou dresses proving that money can't cure sartorial colorblindness. —  The Daily Princetonian, 2009-06-03
  • And I need to ramp down the vintage and froufrou a little. —  Perfume Posse
  • I suddenly have a better perception and appreciation of all the infinity of dainty trifles among which I live; of the fragile and studied grace of their forms, the oddity of their drawings, the refined choice of their colors I stretch myself upon the white mats; Chrysantheme, always eagerly attentive, brings me my pillow of serpent's-skin; and the smiling mousmes, with the interrupted rhythm of a while ago still running in their heads, move around me with measured steps Their immaculate socks with the separate great toes make no noise; nothing is heard, as they glide by, but a 'froufrou' of silken stuffs. —  The French Immortals Series — Complete
 

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