See frou-frou in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "Barack Obama, out of touch with the working man as usual, has an aggressive program for carbon emissions reductions and has spoken of the need for such frou-frou measures as increased investment in transit infrastructure, intercity rail, and even bicycling.",
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"ref": "2024 September 28, HarryBlank, “Not Ready for Prime Time”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 2024-09-29:",
"text": "Dr. Okorie: Those paintings on the walls have a definite effect on people. A very specific definite effect, with wildly variable results. Would you call them de-inhibitors, Lillian?\nDr. Lillihammer: I'd call them cognition divergence vectors. I've already got the paper half-written in my mind.\nDr. Blank: Explain it to us froufrou hard and social scientists.",
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"ref": "1894 October, The Vassar Miscellany, volume 26, page 81:",
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"ref": "1905 May 18, Truth, page 1289:",
"text": "[…]frou-frouing femininities[…]",
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