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  • verb Alternative spelling of dry cleaned. Simple past tense and past participle of dryclean.

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Examples

  • A suit that's not stained does NOT need to be drycleaned after each wearing, or each 5 wearings.

    How To Buy A Suit Online | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • Memo to Phil: You can only have the same suit drycleaned some 26 times before it looks faded and threadbare and falls apart, claims from cleaners that their chemicals don't harm your clothing are total lies.

    Mary Benson Endorses Paul Krekorian for City Council 2009

  • My husband has suits drycleaned rarely, and if he does, he hangs them on the hanger outside on the line in the fresh air, for awhile.

    Home Scents 2006

  • Trains took the coal east, and brought the White House's laundry to Cumberland to be drycleaned.

    If Wishes Came True, There Would Be No Hungry Children in America 2006

  • Rob has all the paperwork we need for the unemployment insurance, and he has collected his drycleaned suit.

    The saddest sound ailbhe 2006

  • He has a haircut, his beard is trimmed, his suit was drycleaned, and he remembered to pack his toothbrush and deodourant.

    A woman's work is never done ailbhe 2006

  • He smelled of some expensive cologne and the clean scent of drycleaned wool.

    Ryan Winston, Anne Marie 2002

  • Now that I don't need the coat in two days I can take it and get the lining repaired, and drycleaned as well.

    across darkest america in microcosm with Stick & theremin badger 2002

  • His usually crumpled suit, dark blue with a thin white stripe, had been drycleaned.

    The Japanese Corpse Van de Wetering, Janwillem, 1931- 1977

  • I haven't had any clothes drycleaned for years (oh, I can hear some gasping, she must be dirty).

    unknown title 2009

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