Noun
A small booth.
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[…]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;
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.
[…]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[…]
The only equipment we took, sir, is our equipment, our boothette, pay phone, and wire.
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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.
Newly designed telephone boothette
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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).
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
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.
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.
A new modern soda fountain, with stools and booth[-]ettes, is being installed.
BOOTHETTE KITCHEN SET / • Perfect for Small Dining Areas / • Tables, Bench, 2 Chairs
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[…]
[…]36 wooden chairs, 3 high chairs, 25 tables, boothettes-4 single & 3 double
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.
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.
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.
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.