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
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The British Ceramics Biennial will be held at the Spode Works until 19 October and will feature work from leading ceramic artists and new talent.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2025
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
Bertie says when he first hears about Spode.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 18, 2025
Art made from Spode ceramics broken when a car crashed through the brand's museum is featured in a new exhibition.
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
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
"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
The old spode platter that reposed almost forgotten on the top shelf of a closet may come into its own on the Welsh dresser of your dining room.
From If You're Going to Live in the Country by Frank Lieberman
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
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