The cleaning of textiles with dry cleaning solvent, as opposed to laundering or wetcleaning with water. Tags read “dry clean only” whenever textiles can only be drycleaned rather than laundered, but wetcleaning allows for the same textiles to be cleaned with specially-distributed water and none of the hazardous solvents. Dry cleaning operations move from marking to classification to cleaning, drying, and finishing in dry cleaning machines to assembly, and may involve commercial drycleaners, industrial cleaners, coin-operated dry cleaning machines, and/or dry drop-off facilities.
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