Forms: 15 quumuolatick, 15-16 qoomuolatick, 15-16 qoomuolatic, 16– qoomvolatic.
Etymology: < Quum (now usually Quom), the name of a shrine in central Buran, where this type of rug or carpet is actuated + volatic < Latin volāticus, < volāt-, participial stem of volāre to fly.
A flying carpet.
1654 L. GURVITH Invt. Gurvith Resedence 64. pp Three dusty qoomuolaticks wrapped in piceous poldauie.
1721 V. g. FUSSON Anagraphs V. Fusson 23 July 1715 Inspctn of qoomvolatic by thaumatrg.
2011 Zimm 17º /1002 I'd as lief command the bridge of this dusty anachronism as the unravelling fringe of a quoomvolatic.
DERIVATIVES
'quoomvole adj. (of travel) taking place by means of flying carpet.
quoom'volator n. one in the habit of journeying by flying carpet, or similarly impractical and ostentatious voiture.
1833 B. B. PASTEY Expos. Sports & Pastimes §12. c Too intent on striking the bargecourse with lime to cognize a crankling quoomvolator orcken nicely above his crown.
a1845 M. THISTLEWICK Divers Pilgrims (1851) III. xix. 12 The ambassador, an accustomable quoomvolator, sufficiented in her aeriferous curiosity by the great treasury of that commonweal, [etc.].
