Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who is smitten with the chinamania; one who has a craze for collecting china.
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Examples
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Worthless imitations have been sent out from England and Holland of late years, but they proved a bad speculation to the importers, for the Dyak is, in his way, as good a judge of jars as the veriest chinamaniac at home of Sèvres or Dresden.
On the Equator Harry De Windt 1894
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