Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who is affected with tulipomania.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who is affected with tulipomania.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Someone who suffers from
tulipomania ; someone who is extremely fond oftulips .
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Examples
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The consequence was that the public instantly responded to his appeal, and we have continued to contemplate with reverence Bossuet's huge historical outlines, but to turn for sheer pleasure to La Bruyère's finished etchings of the tulipomaniac and the collector of engravings.
Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France Edmund Gosse 1888
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A tulipomaniac will not part with a choice bulb for its weight in gold.
Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library Herbert Spencer 1861
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