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Spode

¹ American

[spohd] / spoʊd /

Trademark.

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

Spode ² American

[spohd] / spoʊd /

noun

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

spode British

/ spəʊd /

noun

(sometimes capital) china or porcelain manufactured by Josiah Spode, English potter (1754–1827), or his company

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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

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

Spode, also known as Lord Sidcup, is suspected of colluding with Britain’s soon-to-be enemies.

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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