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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Bertie says when he first hears about Spode.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2025
The firm was founded in 1770 by Josiah Spode who is often credited with developing the formula for fine bone china.
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
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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