The old fashioned glass, otherwise known as the rocks glass and lowball glass (or simply lowball), is a short

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used for serving spirits, such as

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, neat or with ice cubes ("on the rocks"). It is also normally used to serve certain

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s, such as the

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. The true old fashioned glass is decorated in the cut glass style, although most modern examples are pressed glass, made using a mold. The design is essentially English, from the late 18th or 19th-century. Plain glass versions are lowball glasses. Old fashioned glasses typically have a wide brim and a thick base, so that the non-liquid ingredients of a cocktail can be mashed using a muddler before the main liquid ingredients are added. Old fashioned glasses usually contain . A double old fashioned glass (sometimes referred to by retailers as a ''DOF'' glass) contains .

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