tulipomania

[ too-luh-puh-mey-nee-uh, -meyn-yuh ]

noun

1. (in 17th-century Holland) a widespread obsession with tulips, especially of highly prized varieties, as those of a streaked, variegated, or unusual color.

Word History and Origins

Origin of tulipomania¹

First recorded in 1700–10; tulip + -o- + -mania

Example Sentences

It was in 1637 that the extraordinary tulipomania first took possession of the Dutch.

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Great medical virtues were attributed to the so-called horn, and the price it once bore outdoes everything in the Tulipomania.

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This may be called the lesser Tulipomania, which has given occasion to many laughable circumstances.

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The reader has probably heard of the Tulipomania once carried to so great an excess in Holland.

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Their craze is known in history as the Tulipomania, because it was a mania about tulips.

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