boxing-day

A few black eyes have been seen _dans la Rookerie_; but these facial ornaments will not be general until after boxing-day, _quand ils le deviendront bien forts_.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 11, 1841 Various

The morning after the festivities London oversleeps itself: -- and, awaking, finds it boxing-day.

Christmas Comes but Once A Year Showing What Mr. Brown Did, Thought, and Intended to Do, during that Festive Season. John Leighton 1867

-- Packets and parcels are being delivered unceasingly by uncommonly civil butcher-boys, graceful grocers, and urbanic green-grocers, who are near enough to boxing-day to know that silver on the tongue is necessary to charm silver from the pocket.

Christmas Comes but Once A Year Showing What Mr. Brown Did, Thought, and Intended to Do, during that Festive Season. John Leighton 1867

It was on a boxing-day (oddly enough), and I was returning with Lintot and one of his boys from a walk in the Highgate Fields.

Peter Ibbetson George Du Maurier 1865

To make it worst, it happens during the boxing-day of Hajj rites.

Komunitas Muslimblog 2009

To make it worst, it happens during the boxing-day of Hajj rites.

Komunitas Muslimblog 2009