There are loads of pictures of miniature chests of drawers as well on the internet - see the references below. Sometimes also looking at the picture can be helpful in deciding if this is what the text is referring to.
Regards
Carla

Miniature Chest Of Drawers | Woodenware | Cohasset ColonialsTiny chest of drawers have been made in America since the 17th century. Some were intended to hold small trinkets others were children's toys.
www.cohassetcolonials.com/.../Miniature-Chest-Of.../42K51

Lot Description
A VICTORIAN GLASS MINIATURE CHEST OF DRAWERS
MID 19TH CENTURY
Decorated with coloured glass mounts with floral slip ware decorated sides
http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?intObjec...

Miniature Chest of Drawers - Art & Antiques Online - CINOAMiniature Chest of Drawers at Adams Antiques, in Nantwich, England.
www.cinoa.org/exhibits/55010

Herman Miller Nelson Miniature Chest 9 Vertical Drawers with Base ...The Herman Miller Nelson Miniature Chest represents everything we love in good design; it is beautiful, functional and the quality is truly unsurpassed. ...
stardust.com/NC5517-p-GEORGENELSON.html

The term "cabinet" is used sometimes to describe a "contador".

It is not always "mini"... some are quite big.

Very rare, late 17C Indo Portuguese Contador. Probably fom Gujarat, these decorative luxury cabinets were produced in India for Portuguese merchants in the 17C.

However you will also find large and rather cumbersome cabinets of a type known in Portugal as contador, the inlay ornament being either geometrical or semi-abstract.
http://www.pastperfect.sg/indcol.aspx

Cabinet on Stand, So-called "Contador" ·
www.vannieantiquairs.com/en/antiek/m2/p2/