tulipomania

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

noun

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

Origin of tulipomania

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

It was in 1637 that the extraordinary tulipomania first took possession of the Dutch.
The Mentor: Holland, v. 2, Num. 6, Serial No. 58 | Dwight Elmendorf
Great medical virtues were attributed to the so-called horn, and the price it once bore outdoes everything in the tulipomania.
Eccentricities of the Animal Creation. | John Timbs
This may be called the lesser tulipomania, which has given occasion to many laughable circumstances.
A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume I (of 2) | Johann Beckman
The reader has probably heard of the tulipomania once carried to so great an excess in Holland.
Flowers and Flower-Gardens | David Lester Richardson
Their craze is known in history as the tulipomania, because it was a mania about tulips.
The Humbugs of the World | P. T. Barnum

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