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A box engineered so the world gets out and your secrets stay in.
means A small partly enclosed compartment or stall, used for selling goods, voting, dining, making calls, or anything else that wants a bit of privacy and walls.
from From Old Norse 'bóð,' a temporary dwelling or shelter — the kind of lean-to or stall a merchant or traveler would throw up at a fair. It's a cousin of the root meaning 'to dwell' (related to 'bower' and even 'build'), so a booth was originally just a quick, modest place to be. The market-stall sense came first; the snug little phone-and-diner box is a much later narrowing.
- voting origin
- Secret booths killed open vote-buying in the 1850s
- phone fade
- Millions once stood on corners, now nearly extinct
- diner status
- Booth seats outrank tables in restaurant hierarchy
- name source
- Likely from Old Norse for temporary dwelling
- photo strips
- Invented 1925, still spitting out instant nostalgia
john wilkes booth — assassinated president abraham lincoln at ford's theatre, april 14, 1865
booth tarkington — american novelist who won the pulitzer prize twice, in 1919 and 1922