Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—H

Hexameron

(The). The six days of creation; any six days taken as one continuous period.

“`Every winged fowl' was produced on the fourth day of the Hexameron.” —W. E. Gladstone: Nineteenth Century, January, 1866.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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