Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913
Martinet
Mar′ti·net′ (mär′tĭ·nĕt′; 277), n. [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·net′, n. [F.] (Zoöl.) The martin.