Sentence:  He looked in vain into the stalls for the butcher who had sold fresh meat twice a week, on market days, and he felt a genuine thrill of pleasure when he <WSD>recognized</WSD> the red bandana turban of old Aunt Lyddy, the ancient negro woman who had sold him gingerbread and fried fish, and told him weird tales of witchcraft and conjuration, in the old days when, as an idle boy, he had loafed about the market-house. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To match something or someone which one currently perceives to a memory of some previous encounter with the same entity.