Sentence:  One Christmas custom that was very much the rage in the last years of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth, was the <WSD>putzing</WSD> party. In the days when there were many putzes built in Bethlehem private homes, it was the practice to organize groups to wander around and visit the families who had erected these wonderful Christmas displays. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To go around viewing the putzes in the neighborhood.