Plural of booth; small enclosed or semi-enclosed spaces or structures used as stalls, voting places, or temporary shelters.
From Old Norse 'búð' (shelter/hut), related to 'build.' The word entered Middle English around the 13th century describing temporary structures at markets and fairs.
Phone booths were everywhere in the 20th century, but they're basically extinct now—they're becoming artifacts of a vanished world, like the typewriter or payphone!
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