Nuit des Longs Couteaux
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French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Calque of German Nacht der langen Messer.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Nuit 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