tulipomania

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  1. A craze for the cultivation or acquisition of tulips; specifically, that which arose in the Netherlands about the year 1634, seized on all classes like an epidemic, and led to disasters such as result from great financial catastrophes. Tulip-marts were established in various towns, where roots were sold and resold as stocks on the exchange. A single root of Semper Augustus was sold for 13,000 florins. After several years the government found it necessary to interfere.

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  1. =F. tulipomanie (Ménage); as English tulip + Greek μανία, madness: see mania. The D. term is tulpenhandel, tulip-trade.
 

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