From the ArcaMax Publishing, Trivia Newsletter:
http://www.arcamax.com/news/trivia/s-346612-668146
A dresser is a piece of furniture, which is similar to a sideboard, but also has shelves above for storing and displaying crockery. This is not to be confused with a chest of drawers, a piece of furniture which has multiple parallel, horizontal drawers stacked one above each other, which is also known (especially in North American English) as dresser or bureau.
This news arrived on: 05/12/2008