- attempting stylish elegance but achieving only an over-elaborate affectedness故作时髦典雅的, 过分修饰的：
the tiny chichi dining room.
过分装饰的小餐厅。
mass noun
- pretentious and over-elaborate refinement故作文雅, 过分精致：
the relentless chichi of late-eighties dining.
80年代后期过分炫耀典雅的用餐方式。
词源
early 20th cent. （in the sense 'showiness or pretentious object'）： from French， of imitative origin.