tulips
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obsession with tulips
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• (n.) A violent passion for the acquisition or cultivation of tulips; -- a word said by Beckman to have been coined by Menage.
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<psychiatry> A violent passion for the acquisition or cultivation of tulips; a word said by Beckman to have been coined by Menage. ... In Holland, in the first half of the 17th century, the cultivation of tulips became a mania. It began about the year 1634, and, like a violent epidemic, seized upon all classes of the community, leading to dis...
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(in 17th-century Holland) a widespread obsession with tulips, esp. of highly prized varieties, as those of a streaked, variegated, or unusual color.
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