Spode
china or porcelain manufactured by the Spodes or the firm they established.
Showing results for Spode.
Spode
1 American
[spohd]
/ spoʊd /
Trademark.
Spode
2
American
[spohd]
/ spoʊd /
noun
spode
British
/ spəʊd /
noun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
See Examples For:
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
“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
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
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
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
I got a pretty bad start but I worked my way up to seventh because I'm a spode!
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
Sheffield they gave, a grievous load, And Chelsea, flower'd and spruce, And antique thingummies in spode; The only thing that none bestowed Was anything of use.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 25, 1914 by Various
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
