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telephone booths


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Term Type

Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Preferred Term

telephone booths

Details

Small structures, typically large enough for a single person to comfortably enter and furnished with a payphone for public use. They are typically characterized by having a door for privacy and windows to alert others that the booth is in use.

Variations

booths, phone

call boxes

boxes, call

booths, telephone

phone booths

telephone booth

telephone kiosks

telephone boxes

telephone box

cabines téléphoniques

cabine téléphonique

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