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tulipomania
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Tu`lip`o`ma´ni`a
n.1.A violent passion for the acquisition or cultivation of tulips; - a word said by Beckman to have been coined by Menage.
tulipomania
a mania for planting and growing tulips, especially such a mania in Holland in the 1630s, when a sum equivalent to $5200 was paid for a single bulb. — tulipomaniac, n.
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