Spode
china or porcelain manufactured by the Spodes or the firm they established.
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Spode
1 American
[spohd]
/ spoʊd /
Trademark.
Spode
2
American
[spohd]
/ spoʊd /
noun
spode
British
/ spəʊd /
noun
Example Sentences
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As for who or what Eulalie is, and why it reduces Spode to jelly, you’ll have to read the book.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2025
Mr Talbot's work is on display at the museum, which is within the former Spode Works on Elenora Street.
From BBC • Apr. 6, 2022
Usefully, Bertie, who generally is “not frightfully up on the personnel of the political world,” knows Spode personally, and considers him a loathsome “carbuncle.”
From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2018
It’s the one about the theft of an 18th-century cow creamer and the machinations of the would-be dictator Roderick Spode, leader of the Black Shorts.
From Washington Post • Dec. 7, 2016
More or less independent later experiments in France and England led to Sevres, Wedgwood, and Spode porcelains.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
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