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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 240 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BOOTH (connected with a See also:Teutonic See also:root meaning to dwell, whence also " See also:bower ")  , primarily a temporary dwelling of boughs or other slight materials . Later the word gained the See also:special meaning of a See also:market See also:stall or any non-permanent erection, such as a See also:tent at a See also:fair, where goods were on See also:sale . Later still it was applied to the temporary structure where votes were registered, viz. polling-See also:booth . Temporary booths erected for the weekly markets naturally tended to become permanent shops . Thus See also:Stow states that the houses in Old See also:Fish See also:Street, See also:London, " were at first but movable boards set out on market days to show their fish there to be sold; but procuring See also:licence to set up sheds, they See also:grew to shops, and by little and little, to tall houses." As bothy or bothie, in See also:Scotland, meaning generally a hut or cottage, the word was specially applied to a barrack-like See also:room on large farms where the unmarried labourers were lodged . This, known as the Bothy See also:system, was formerly See also:common in See also:Aberdeenshire and other parts of See also:northern Scotland .

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