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Poirotesque en · ADJ

Etymology

From Poirot + -esque.

Meanings

1. Reminiscent of Hercule Poirot, a fictional Belgian detective in the works of Agatha Christie, known for his finicky neatness and for assembling suspects at the conclusion of a case to explain what happened and who committed the crime.
   • While generally restraining himself from the Poirotesque habit of assembling rooms full of suspects to heighten the sense of theatre at the denouement of a case, he would occasionally milk a scene. 2009, Daniel Smith, The Sherlock Holmes Companion: An Elementary Guide, page 27:
   • The tabloids played on the drama and gave it a Poirotesque twist, of deep plots being hatched in space to do away with troublesome officers. 2000, Sam Mangat, The Homestead: The Great Space Mutiny, page 254:
   • Even more stimulating is the sleuth-like pursuit of clues in Ovid culminating in a Poirotesque gathering of all threads in a final denouement […] 1990, JACT Review, page 29:
   • Photographs of Murif on the journey show him looking somewhat Hercule Poirotesque, with a neatly trimmed beard and moustache and wearing a homburg hat. The rest of his attire was designed purely for comfort, […] 2012, Warren Brown, Francis Birtles:

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Relateds

Poirotian