Capable of being cleaned; able to be made clean without damage or difficulty.
From 'clean' + the suffix '-able' (capable of being). The suffix '-able' comes from Latin '-abilis' and was used to form adjectives describing possibility or capacity.
When manufacturers started using 'cleanable' as a selling point in the 1950s, it was actually revolutionary—they were promising your furniture could survive spills, which was huge for families with children!
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