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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“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
He said he had a "particular interest in Spode with its history of design continuity over hundreds of years".
From BBC • Apr. 6, 2022
Conveniently, Spode and Wooster travel in the same Wodehouse-world circles — London clubs, the Ritz, Quaglino’s, the theater, Savile Row tailors and weekend country house parties — mooting the impingement question.
From New York Times • Nov. 30, 2018
Its tech-based success story looms large in a city once dominated by its potteries, such as Wedgwood, Spode and Royal Doulton.
From The Guardian • Nov. 24, 2018
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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