Meanings
plural boothettes
- A small booth.
Newly designed telephone boothette
1971, This is Japan, page 1975 more examples
[…]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;
1957, Personal Injury: Actions, Defenses, Damages, page 268A 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.
1959, The Michigan Bell, page 42[…]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[…]
1960, The American City, page 99The only equipment we took, sir, is our equipment, our boothette, pay phone, and wire.
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 1839Even 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.
1969, American Law Reports: Cases and Annotations, page 1430
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