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Can anyone offer a reference to the first published work which defined a
notion of strict n-category equivalent to that used today?

I know that Ehresmann invented n-tuple ( or n-fold ) categories which
contain strict n-categories as special cases.  If this is the first
implicit defintion of strict n-category does anyone know who was the first
to isolate our current notion of strict n-category as a particularly
interesting special case of an n-tuple category?

Carl Futia