Nuit des Longs Couteaux

French

Etymology

Calque of German Nacht der langen Messer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɥi de lɔ̃ ku.to/

Noun

Nuit des Longs Couteaux f (uncountable)

1. Night of the Long Knives
2. (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