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Gender Masculine
Usage French
Pronounced Pron. EHR-KUYL

Meaning & History

French form of Hercules. It was used by the British writer Agatha Christie for the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, the protagonist in many of her mystery novels (debuting 1920).