porpentine

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Noun

porpentine (plural porpentines)

1. (archaic) Porcupine.
   • 1594, Christopher Marlowe, Edward II (play), London: William Jones,

     […] these wordes of his moue me as much,

     As if a Goose should play the Porpintine,

     And dart her plumes, thinking to pierce my brest,

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