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Webster 1913 Edition
Martinet
Mar′ti-netˊ
,Noun.
[So called from an officer of that name in the French army under
Louis XIV.
Cf. Martin
the bird, Martlet
.] In military language, a strict disciplinarian; in general, one who lays stress on a rigid adherence to the details of discipline, or to forms and fixed methods.
[Hence, the word is commonly employed in a depreciatory sense.]
Mar′ti-netˊ
,Noun.
[F.]
(Zool.)
The martin.