A DC-sputtered Ag film grown on glass while exposed to controlled, concurrent, ion bombardment exhibited strong light scattering, as attributed to its characteristic surface plasmon excitation. A novel trilayer structure consisting of this moderately roughened, nano-textured, Ag film as the bottom reflecting layer, an intermediate transparent layer, and an thin light absorber layer (spin-coated RhB) on top, allowed us to achieve more than 10-fold light absorption enhancement, as compared to the control absorber layer placed on glass substrate. The large enhancement can be traced back in part to the constructive interference between the incoming and the plasmon-scattered light (i. e., enhanced electromagnetic field) in the absorber layer and also to effective confinement of some considerable fraction of the incoming light by the unique trilayer devise developed in this study.