Poirotian

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Of or relating to the fictional detective Hercule Poirot in the works of Agatha Christie.

    "It is present, too, in The Confidential Clerk, with its multiple puzzles of parental identity and its twisting series of Poirotian revelations in the final scene […]"

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"It is present, too, in The Confidential Clerk, with its multiple puzzles of parental identity and its twisting series of Poirotian revelations in the final scene […]"

Etymology

From Poirot + -ian.

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