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Spode

1

[ spohd ]

Trademark.
  1. china or porcelain manufactured by the Spodes or the firm they established.


Spode

2

[ spohd ]

noun

  1. Josiah, 1733–97, and his son, Josiah, 1754–1827, English potters.

spode

/ spəʊd /

noun

  1. sometimes capital china or porcelain manufactured by Josiah Spode, English potter (1754–1827), or his company
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

But Spode is a character from pure planet Wodehouse—just as much as Aunt Agatha or Gussy Fink-Nottle.

Before that it had been the china warehouse of Messrs. Spode and Copeland.

The first Josiah Spode had a factory here in 1784 for the production of earthenware.

But Josiah Spode is best known as devoting considerable skill in the improvement of under-glaze blue-printing cream-ware.

Spode had a leaning for Oriental subjects in his blue printed ware, which was quickly adopted by Leeds.

Josiah Spode, about 1784, introduced his under-glaze blue "willow pattern," a copy of the Caughley pattern.

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