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noun

Kiosk n.

A Turkish open summer house or pavilion, supported by pillars.

A light ornamental structure used as a news stand, band stand, etc.

A small roofed structure, typically located on a sidewalk and sometimes in a parking lot, with one or more open sides, used to vend merchandise, such as newspapers or beverages, or services, such as key duplication or film developing.

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Etymology of 'Kiosk'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Kiosk" Quotes from Famous Books

... In the kiosk, the military band. The shakos nod the time of the quadrilles. The flaunting dandy strolls about the stand. The notary, half ...

— Silverpoints • John Gray

... given me an appointment for eight o'clock, near the Kiosk. It is ten past eight. I go out. The passage, the court,—by night all these familiar things surround me even while they hide themselves. A vague light still hovers in the sky. Crillon's prismatic shop gleams like ...

— Light • Henri Barbusse

... dim and unsatisfactory. If there is anything that the patient reader wants to know it is how the Duke and Duchess of Bellemont behaved to the Lady of Bethany when they arrived at Jerusalem and found their son in the kiosk under her palm-tree. But this is curiosity of a class which Disraeli is not unwilling to awaken, but which he never cares to satisfy. He places the problems in a heap before us, and he leaves us to untie the knots. It is a highly ...

— Some Diversions of a Man of Letters • Edmund William Gosse

... Manila as the autumn came on and the insurrection was still in the far future. There were fine bands among the Yankee regiments that played afternoon and evening in the kiosk on the Luneta, and every household possessed of an open carriage, or the means of hiring one, appeared regularly each day as the sun sank to the westward sea, and after making swift yet solemn circuit of ...

— Ray's Daughter - A Story of Manila • Charles King

Words linked to "Kiosk" : phone booth, tollbooth, call box, telephone box, polling booth, telephone kiosk, confessional, shower stall, telephone booth, shower bath, cubicle, prompt box, prompter's box, booth, tollhouse, tolbooth, stall, closet, voting booth