porpentine
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"Well, there's a zoo in the Tower, with lions and tigers and a porpentine, even a camel; But all they do is sleep. We could go to Paul's instead."
From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood
His blue eyes glowed, his cheeks grew rosier, each particular hair of his perfectly charming little blond moustache—trimmed by Truefitt once a fortnight—stood up on end like quills upon the fretful porpentine.
From Mrs. Fitz by Snaith, J. C.
The word is porpentine, not porcupine, Mr. Inspector.
From Ireland as It Is And as It Would be Under Home Rule by Buckley, Robert John
It has an extraordinary number of early variants, and Shakespeare wrote it porpentine.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest
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