tulipomania

/too-luh-puh-mey-nee-uh, -meyn-yuh/US // ˌtu lə pəˈmeɪ ni ə, -ˈmeɪn yə //

火焰狂热症,火焰狂人,火焰狂热,火灾狂人

Definitions

n.名词 noun

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- : a widespread obsession with tulips, especially of highly prized varieties, as those of a streaked, variegated, or unusual color.

It was in 1637 that the extraordinary tulipomania first took possession of the Dutch.
Great medical virtues were attributed to the so-called horn, and the price it once bore outdoes everything in the Tulipomania.
This may be called the lesser Tulipomania, which has given occasion to many laughable circumstances.
The reader has probably heard of the Tulipomania once carried to so great an excess in Holland.
Their craze is known in history as the Tulipomania, because it was a mania about tulips.