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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024Al′phonse and Gas′ton, - marked by a ritualistic courtliness in which two often competing participants graciously but stubbornly defer to each other:a kind of Alphonse and Gaston act in which each man insisted the other go through the doorway first.
Also, Al′phonse-and-Gas′ton. - after the title characters of a cartoon strip by American cartoonist Frederick Burr Opper (1857–1937), which first appeared in 1905
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