Nuit des Longs Couteaux
French
editEtymology
editCalque of German Nacht der langen Messer.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editNuit des Longs Couteaux f (uncountable)
- Night of the Long Knives
- (Canada, politics, historical) The Night of the Long Knives, the night of November 4, 1981, in which the federal and nine provincial governments, in the absence of Quebec, reached the Kitchen Accord for the patriation of the Canadian Constitution