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glass, Old-Fashioned

From The Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails

, is a short, heavy-bottomed tumbler used to serve its namesake cocktail and other mixed drinks, also used for straight spirits with ice (hence, its alias: a rocks glass). In the nineteenth century, it was known as the “small bar glass.” See also Old-Fashioned Cocktail, rocks.

This definition is from The Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails, edited by David Wondrich (Editor-in-Chief) and Noah Rothbaum (Associate Editor).