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[ak'-wah-mah-REEN, aw-kwah-mah-REEN] 
1. a transparent variety of beryl that is blue green in color; greenish blue gemstone
2. a shade of blue tinged with green; greenish blue: "His eyes are a very singular shade of aquamarine."
Origin:
Approximately 1598; from Latin, 'aqua marina': sea water ('aqua': water + 'marina,' feminine of 'marinus': of the sea). In action:
"It's rare to find such stunning gems still in their natural form, but here each cut gem is accompanied by an example of how it would have looked when it came out of the ground.
There are hexagonal emeralds that at first glance look like colourful hunks of worn glass, there are clusters of rubies clinging, limpet-like, to pieces of limestone marble, and there's an aquamarine and rose crystal the size of a grapefruit clasped in the possessive fingers of the coarse grain rock on which it grew.
The cut stones are just as impressive: the Aurora collection of 296 coloured diamonds; the famous Star of South Africa, which started the South African diamond rush; and Edward Heron-Allen's cursed amethyst, which has a spooky tale of its own."
Chloe Rhodes. "Visiting the Vault at the Natural History Museum," Telegraph.co.uk (November 24, 2007).
"Some businesses are wising up to the untapped marketing opportunity. Toronto's go-to jeweller for serious flash, Mark Lash, is considering a series of radio advertisements for the coming year targeting push-gift buyers - but only if it can be done 'tastefully,' said his marketing consultant, Donna Grober.
'This is something men are doing on their own initiative, to show gratitude to their wives who are giving them the ultimate gift,' Mr. Lash said. Just this month, he said, a customer bought a spectacular aquamarine and diamond ring for his wife who is expecting in March (aquamarines being March's birthstone)."
Andrea Zoe Aster. "Push, push (and I'll buy you a pendant)," [New dads are purchasing big-ticket items to thank their partners for giving them the ultimate gift.] The Globe and Mail (December 11, 2007).
"Their legs long, delicate and slender, aquamarine their eyes,
Magical unicorns bear ladies on their backs.
The ladies close their musing eyes. No prophecies,
Remembered out of Babylonian almanacs,
Have closed the ladies' eyes, their minds are but a pool
Where even longing drowns under its own excess...."
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). Irish poet, playwright. 'VII. I See Phantoms of Hatred and of the Heart's Fullness and of the Coming Emptiness.'
"In Blue Arabesque, a sinuous meditation on artistic inspiration, poet Patricia Hampl revisits the figures who have meant the most to her, including Henri Matisse, Katherine Mansfield, and eccentric Minnesota-born filmmaker Jerome Hill, all of whom, like Hampl, were drawn ''as if by divining rod...to the aquamarine rim of the Mediterranean.'' In just over 200 pages of honed prose, she segues gracefully from discussions of Matisse's tense marriage to an alternative feminist interpretation of harems (''not a caged life, but a silken chamber'') to a critique of tourism to her own Catholic girlhood. Though overly precious in places, this tiny, brainy book is nonetheless a treat."
Jennifer Reese. "Book Review: Blue Arabesque by Patricia Hampl," Entertainment Weekly Online (October 20, 2006).
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