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Nuit des Longs Couteaux

French, noun/nɥi de lɔ̃ ku.to/

Nuit des Longs Couteaux is a French feminine noun meaning “Night of the Long Knives” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

What does Nuit des Longs Couteaux mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    feminineNight of the Long Knives

  2. 2

    CanadafeminineThe 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

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How do you pronounce Nuit des Longs Couteaux?

  • /nɥi de lɔ̃ ku.to/

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.