MARTINET

Martinet

The martinet is a punitive device traditionally used in France and other parts of Europe. The word also has other usages, described below.

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martinet

Noun

  1. A strict disciplinarian
  2. Anyone who lays stress on a rigid adherence to the details of discipline, or to forms and fixed methods or rules.

Noun (etymology 2)

  1. A martin; a swift


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