The six days of creation; any six days taken as one continuous period.
“‘Every winged fowlʹ was produced on the fourth day of the Hexameron.”—W. E. Gladstone: Nineteenth Century, January, 1866.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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