Spode
china or porcelain manufactured by the Spodes or the firm they established.
Spode
1 American
[spohd]
/ spoʊd /
Trademark.
Spode
2
American
[spohd]
/ spoʊd /
noun
spode
British
/ spəʊd /
noun
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"My customers love it and then some of them, for example, they come in Spode, they can't move, in front of the entrance, like 'oh my god i'm in Stoke, i'm in Spode'," she beamed.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
“No,” he’s told, “by the time Spode formed his association, there were no shirts left. He and his adherents wear black shorts.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2025
Bertie says when he first hears about Spode.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2025
The vehicle went through the windows of Spode Museum in Stoke-on-Trent four years ago on Tuesday, damaging a large amount of vintage and antique items on sale in the venue's shop.
From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2022
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
"Compared to the San Francisco mud race this year where I rode like a spode, the track tonight almost seemed dream-like," said Langston.
From Time Magazine Archive
I got a pretty bad start but I worked my way up to seventh because I'm a spode!
From Time Magazine Archive
Restrained in their comments, visitors wandered from booth to booth smiling pleasantly at dealers, murmuring: "Nice bit of spode," "I question that settle," "Lovely chair, but the patina is gone."
From Time Magazine Archive
She sometimes brings one out at ordinary afternoon tea and insists that the tea is ever so much better drunk thus than out of spode.
From The Healthy Life, Vol. V, Nos. 24-28 The Independent Health Magazine by Charles William Daniel
In the window were a tea service of spode and a collection of luster ware.
From In the Wilderness by Robert Smythe Hichens
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