boothette
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: boothettes
Etymology: From booth + -ette.
Senses: examples: text: […]plaintiff was in boothette-type telephone on sidewalk outside drugstore when automobile suddenly jumped over the curb and sidewalk and crushed her against steel pipe and brick wall;
ref: 1957, Personal Injury: Actions, Defenses, Damages, page 268:
text: A motorist may drive up to the phone, which is housed in a plastic boothette, drop in a coin or two, and make a call without leaving his car. The walk-up public telephone is the same type of boothette mounted on a slightly higher pedestal and is located where it can readily be seen and used by pedestrians.
ref: 1959, The Michigan Bell, page 42:
text: […]Company tried public reaction to its initial placement of a new type outside telephone booth along the boulevard (page 44, The American City, April 1960). The result: excellent. The attractiveness of the colorful boothettes and the additional pedestrian traffic on Hollywood Boulevard have produced an additional source of revenue[…]
ref: 1960, The American City, page 99:
text: The only equipment we took, sir, is our equipment, our boothette, pay phone, and wire.
ref: 1966, Invasions of Privacy (Government Agencies): Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure of the Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate, Eighty-Ninth Congress, Pursuant to S. Res. 39, S. Res. 190, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, page 1839:
text: Even if Southern Bell did owe its customers a duty of some type to furnish a reasonably safe place to use the telephone, it is clear that such a duty does not extend to the repair of a defective post located five feet from the boothette.
ref: 1969, American Law Reports: Cases and Annotations, page 1430:
text: Newly designed telephone boothette
ref: 1971, This is Japan, page 197:
text: The objective of this five-day course is for each student to be able to install, maintain, and troubleshoot the A.E. 120A Single Slot Coin Telephone and equipment related to its function (booth, boothette and shelfette).
ref: 1979 November 18, The Sunday Rutland Herald and The Sunday Times Argus, volume 5, number 3, section four, page 4:
text: D. Semi-Public Telephone Service / For Rochester Metropolitan Exchanges: / Semi-Public Telephone [“Old”] $10.03 [“New*”] $16.98 / Access Line 10.19 8.08 / Indoor Booth 12.11 18.97 / Boothette 2.72 5.13
ref: 1982 July 20, Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, N.Y., page 3C:
text: The older-style phone booths are being replaced by open-air “boothettes” because increasing theft and destruction of enclosed booths make maintenance time-consuming and costly.
ref: 1983 April 10, Penny Pagano, “The once and future pay phone”, in The Miami Herald, page 1F:
text: Criminal mischief — $350 damage to pay phone and boothette in Yoctangee Park. Reported Monday, 12:43 p.m. Criminal mischief — $766 damage to pay phone and boothette pushed back two feet into an electric pole.
ref: 2002 August 6, Chillicothe Gazette, volume 202, number 135, page 3A:
text: A new modern soda fountain, with stools and booth[-]ettes, is being installed.
ref: 1950, The Virginia Pharmacist, page 246:
text: BOOTHETTE KITCHEN SET / • Perfect for Small Dining Areas / • Tables, Bench, 2 Chairs
ref: 1983 September 29, Courier-Post, page 14D:
text: Redy Ref Sitdown Boothette - SD 3600 Modern modular sitdown boothette in all stainless steel, satin finish. This design features an Acoustic Interior with comfortable seating, recessed writing/directory shelf, and flush mounted[…]
ref: 1999, Sweet’s General Building & Renovation, page 3:
text: […]36 wooden chairs, 3 high chairs, 25 tables, boothettes-4 single & 3 double
ref: 2002 April 21, The Charlotte Observer, page 18C:
text: Suffice to say there is a downstairs dining-room of almost old Hollywood glamour broken up with filmy, flowing curtains, columns and boothettes, strangely juxtaposed with tall high tables and stools.
ref: 2004 May 30, Terry Durack, “Going round in circles”, in The Independent on Sunday, page 35:
text: And when the average American voter walks into that voting boothette and stares at a ballot until his eyes glaze over, any recognizable name outside of Hitler is going to get more votes than an unknown.
ref: 2004 September 29, Jeff Smith, “Ignore Joe Sweeney’s candidacy at your peril”, in Tucson Citizen, page 5B:
text: But while he fielded questions at the makeshift podium, more exciting things were happening at his booth — not because of the designer’s industrial furniture or stage lighting (called, appropriately, A Bit of Rough) but owing to the fact that his boothettes were giving away gold lamé tote bags to a growing queue of visitors.
ref: 2008 October 4, Ellen Himelfarb, “Design in the Time of Chaos”, in National Post, volume 10, number 288, page WP7:
text: Now in the even less glamorous radio boothette, I have to wait until Dai Greene has run his race in Moscow before Radio 5 Live take me and we rehearse the same discussion.
ref: 2013 August 13, Chris Bryant, “From Daybreak to Today, the day everybody wanted a piece of me”, in The Independent, page 6:
glosses: A small booth.