Note 26 — THE INSTRUMENT.25
Reading edition
Frenolle is the word in the text—probably a fantastic term, since Pierre’s “instrument” is not known by that name in Haut Bretagne. Farmer, in his monumental work Slang and its Analogues, (Privately Printed, 1890-1904) and Landes (Glossaire Érotique de la Langue française—Brussels, 1861) do not include the word in their comprehensive lists of French erotic synonyms for penis. Nor can we find mention of it in Vocabula Amatoria (London, 1896). Littré, even, does not give the word.