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noun

Booth n.

A house or shed built of boards, boughs, or other slight materials, for temporary occupation.

A covered stall or other temporary structure in a fair, or market, or at a polling place.

A partly enclosed area within a room for use of one or a small number of people, such as one in a restaurant having a table and seats, or one at an exhibition containing a display of products from one organization.

A small structure designed for the use of one person performing a special activity; as, a telephone booth; a highway toll booth; a projection booth; a guard booth.

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Etymology of 'Booth'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Booth" Quotes from Famous Books

... erection of the canvas booth or shelter, he gave Otto a good deal of information regarding the vessel, the emigrants, the crew, and the misunderstandings which had occurred previous ...

— The Island Queen • R.M. Ballantyne

... finished the children were all taken down-stairs and they looked very pretty flitting about. There was another surprise, one that greatly interested the little girl. In one prettily arranged booth were two curious small beings who had a history. They had already been in Sunday-school on two occasions. A missionary to China, seeing these little girls about to be sold, had rescued them by buying them himself. He had brought ...

— A Little Girl in Old New York • Amanda Millie Douglas

... of Southwell; Bishop Moorhouse, of Manchester; Bishop Mackarness, of Oxford; Bishop Chinnery-Haldane, of Argyll and the Isles; Bishop Barry, Primate of Australia; Dean Kichten. Archdeacon Wilberforce; Father Ignatius; General Booth, the founder of the Salvation Army; Spurgeon; Hugh Price Hughes; Newman ...

— Great Testimony - against scientific cruelty • Stephen Coleridge

... to be observed that the strolling profession had its divisions and grades. The "boothers," as they are termed, have to be viewed as almost a distinct class. These carry their theatre, a booth, about with them, and only pretend to furnish very abridged presentments of the drama. With them "Richard III.," for instance, is but an entertainment of some twenty minutes' duration. They are only anxious to give as many performances ...

— A Book of the Play - Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character • Dutton Cook

... be marriage, my dear sister," the Major said resolutely. "We're not going to have a Pendennis, the head of the house, marry a strolling mountebank from a booth. No, no, we won't marry into Greenwich ...

— The History of Pendennis • William Makepeace Thackeray

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