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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.
See also: Flowers


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All at once, Cornelius van Baerle, who, after all his learned pursuits, had been seized with the tulipomania, made some changes in his house at Dort, which, as we have stated, was next door to that of Boxtel.
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