Sentence:  <WSD>Boxing-day</WSD> in the London streets, and especially a wet <WSD>Boxing-day</WSD>, can scarcely fail to afford us some tableaux vivants illustrative of English metropolitan life. ... Christmas-eve of the year about which I write was bright and springlike; Christmas-day dismal, dark, and un-Christmas-like; but <WSD>Boxing-day</WSD> that year was essentially muggy, sloppy, drizzly, and nasty. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The day after Christmas; the 26th of December.