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Cleaners   /klˈinərz/   Listen
Cleaners

noun
1.
Shop where dry cleaning is done.  Synonym: dry cleaners.






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"Cleaners" Quotes from Famous Books



... up a cracked marble staircase, and pass into a most enormous room with a vaulted roof and whitewashed walls: not unlike a great Methodist chapel. This is the sala. It has five windows and five doors, and is decorated with pictures which would gladden the heart of one of those picture-cleaners in London who hang up, as a sign, a picture divided, like death and the lady, at the top of the old ballad: which always leaves you in a state of uncertainty whether the ingenious professor has cleaned one half, or dirtied the other. The furniture of this sala is a sort of red brocade. ...
— Pictures from Italy • Charles Dickens

... highest form of service is to cleanse. Cleansing is always dirty work for the cleaners, as every housemaid knows. You cannot make people clean by scolding them, by lecturing them, by patronising them. You have to go down into the filth if you mean to lift them out of it; and leave your smelling-bottles behind; and think nothing repulsive ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. John Chapters I to XIV • Alexander Maclaren



Words linked to "Cleaners" :   store, plural form, shop, plural



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