Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
MARTINET
martinet, disciplinarian, moralist
(noun) someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Noun
martinet (plural martinets)
(military) A strict disciplinarian.
(figuratively) Anyone who lays stress on a rigid adherence to the details of discipline, or to forms and fixed methods or rules.
Etymology 2
Noun
martinet (plural martinets)
A martin; a swift.
Source: Wiktionary
Mar"ti*net`, n. Etym: [So called from an officer of that name in the French army under Louis XIV. Cf. Martin the bird, Martlet.]
Definition: 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. Etym: [F.] (Zoöl.)
Definition: The martin.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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