Poirotian
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    Etymology
    
Poirot + -ian
Adjective
    
Poirotian (comparative more Poirotian, superlative most Poirotian)
- Of or relating to the fictional detective Hercule Poirot in the works of Agatha Christie.
-  2005, David E. Chinitz, T. S. Eliot and the Cultural Divide, page 146:- 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 […]
 
-  2011, Steve Boggs, Letters to Dinah, page 74:- For an outsider, you gain local knowledge slowly, have to sort of come at it indirectly, like a Poirotian detective, accumulating the facts and history of the people who have lived and live in your town.
 
-  1993, G. G. Vandagriff, Voices in Your Blood, page 157:- As you can see, each of the above programs is designed for a different user. What kind are you? A Poirotian detective with excellent computer skills and a healthy pocketbook?
 
 
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