Usually used postpositively. As an epithet of the goddess Venus (Aphrodite), as originally depicted in a famous painting by the Greek artist Apelles: emerging from the sea. Hence later in allusive use.
Something likened to Venus (Aphrodite) emerging from the sea.

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